Roman baths were designed for bathing and relaxing and were a common feature of cities throughout the Roman empire. Baths included a wide diversity of rooms with different temperatures, as well as swimming pools and places to read, relax, and socialise. Roman baths, with their large covered spaces, were important drivers in architectural innovation, notably in the use of domes.
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Timeline
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c. 20 BCEThe Campus Martius baths in Rome are constructed and donated to the people by Agrippa.
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c. 65 CEThe Baths of Nero are built in Rome.
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110 CEThe Baths of Trajan in Rome are completed.
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c. 127 CEThe Baths of Hadrian at Lepcis Magna are completed.
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162 CEThe Antonine Baths at Carthage are completed.
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227 CEThe Baths of Nero in Rome are extensively renovated and expanded by Alexander Severus and renamed Thermae Alexandrinae.
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c. 235 CEThe Baths of Caracalla in Rome are completed.
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305 CEThe Baths of Diocletian in Rome are completed.
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315 CEThe Baths of Constantine I in Rome are completed.
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537 CEThe Baths of Caracalla in Rome are abandoned after invading Goths cut the supplying aqueducts.
