about 509 B.C.
The Roman Republic was founded in the year 509 BC. Rome was a flourishing city in ancient times and was a Republic government.
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Through the overthrow of the last king, Taruinius Priscus, whose rule was despotic. The spark was the rape of Lucretia, an aristocratic woman, by Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, and her subsequent suicide. Lucius Junius Brutus led the rebellion. He got the Romans to swear never to allow anyone to become king again. He is also the one who came up with the idea of having two annually elected consuls to avoid tyranny. The king was outside the city leading a siege at Ardea. On hearing of the revolt, he headed for Rome, but found the gates closed and had to leave. Junius Brutus went to Ardea to inform the soldiers there that the assembly of the soldiers had endorsed the republic. Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucretia's husband became first consuls. Apart form the consulship, the institutions were the same as in the monarchy: the senate remained an advisory body and the assemblies of the tribes and the soldiers (created by the 5th king) remained the voting bodies.
Archaeological signs of widespread burning in Rome which were previously thought to be dating to the Gallic sack of 390 BC, have now been re-dated to around the time of these events. Therefore, the regime change may have been more violent that the story says.
== == The Roman Republic began in 509 B.C when the Romans decided to take the control from their Etruscan Leaders out.
The republic of Rome was founded in 509 BC when the citizens overthrew the kings.
The Romans began their republic after they revolted and overthrew their Etruscan kings. Lucius Brutus is credited with establishing the republic.
The date given for the start of the Roman republic is 509 BC.
Roman society was divided into the patricians (the aristocracy), the equites (equestrians) who were bankers, money lenders, merchants and investors in shipping and mining, and the plebeians (the commoners). there were also slaves and freedmen
The Romans set up a republic in 509 BC. However it did not have an empire for another two hundred years - it was just another city-state trying to survive in Italy against other competing states.
George Washington looked up to Cincinnatus.
A republic, Romans thought, would keep any individual from gaining too much power!