55 BC to 54 BC	Work started on site of Basilica Sempronia possibly by the curule aedile L. Aemilius Paulus.
46 BC	Building inaugurated.
29 BC to 12 BC	Building completed under Augustus.
12 BC	Building damaged by fire. Sources: LTUR I:177 (C.F. Giuliani, P. Verduchi).
12 AD	Dedicated again after destruction by fire.
80 AD to 100 AD	Meetings of centumviral (probate) court reported here in second half of first century AD. Sources: Quintilian inst. 12.5-6; Pliny epist. 5.9.1.
283 AD	Burned again in fire of Carinus.
285 AD to 300 AD	Repaired by Diocletian and Maximian. Sources: Chronogr. a. 354 p. 148 M.
377 AD to 416 AD	In either 377 or 416 AD, statues were transferred to building by the urban praefect, Gabinius Vettius Probianus. Sources: CIL VI 1156, 1658, 31883-31887.
1496 AD	First permits issued for the removal of marble from the site, long in ruins.
1788 AD to 1789 AD	First excavations undertaken by C. F. von Fredenheim. Sources: LTUR I:178 (C.F. Giuliani, P. Verduchi).


Basilicas Basilica Aemilia