c.750 B.C. - Arrival of the Phoenicians

c.480 B.C. - The Carthaginian Period

c.256 B.C. - Malta attacked by the Romans

c.218 B.C. - Malta taken by the Romans

41 B.C. - The Maltese are allowed municipal privileges

60 A.D. - Apostle St Paul shipwrecked in Malta

395 A.D. - Final division of the Roman Empire