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c. 814 BCE
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539 BCEEtruscan & Carthaginian alliance expels the Greeks from Corsica.
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500 BCECarthage expands into southern Spain.
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405 BCESegesta comes under Carthaginian control.
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c. 341 BCE
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311 BCE
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310 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse lands an army of 14,000 in North Africa.
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309 BCE
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309 BCE - 308 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse successfuly campaigns in North Africa defeating Carthaginian armies and taking Utica and Hippacra.
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307 BCECarthage defeats the army of Agathocles of Syracuse led by Archagathus while Agathocles is in Sicily.
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306 BCE
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264 BCE - 241 BCE
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264 BCEThe Mamertines at Messana on Sicily call for Carthaginian and then Roman help in defence against Syracuse, sparking the First Punic War.
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c. 263 BCE
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256 BCERome lands an army of four legions on African soil at Clupea during the First Punic War.
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255 BCE - 253 BCERoman fleets are wrecked by storms off Pachynus and Palinurus during the First Punic War.
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255 BCECarthage sues for peace during the First Punic War but the Roman consul Regulus' excessive demands are rejected.
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255 BCEA Carthaginain army led by the mercenary Spartan commander Xanthippus defeats two Roman legions near Tunis during the First Punic War.
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249 BCEAntaros withdraws his support from Carthage.
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249 BCE
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247 BCE - 183 BCELife of Hannibal.
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247 BCE
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237 BCEHamilcar Barca arrives in southern Spain to expand Carthage's interests there. He makes his base at Gades and founds Acra Leuce.
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229 BCEHasdrubal takes command of Carthage's armies in Spain.
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226 BCEHasdrubal signs an agreement with Rome not to cross the Ebro river in Spain.
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219 BCEHannibal crosses the Ebro river in Spain and sacks the city of Saguntum, Rome's ally, sparking off the Second Punic War.
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Aug 216 BCE
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215 BCEA Carthaginian army led by Hasdrubal is defeated at the battle of Ibera in Spain.
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212 BCEA Carthaginian army is defeated in Sicily by a Roman army led by Marcellus. Syracuse falls to Rome who now control the island.
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211 BCEA Carthaginian army defeats two Roman consuls and their armies in the Tader valley, Spain.
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209 BCEScipio Africanus captures the Carthaginian base and treasury Carthago Nova in southern Spain.
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208 BCEScipio Africanus defeats a Carthaginian army led by Hasdrubal at Baecula in Spain.
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206 BCEScipio Africanus wins the battle of Ilipa in Spain.
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204 BCE
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204 BCE - 203 BCE
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203 BCE
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203 BCE
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19 Oct 202 BCE
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195 BCEFacing the threat of being handed to the Romans after the Second Punic War, Hannibal flees to the Seleucid court of Antiochus III and becomes his advisor.
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c. 183 BCEAs an ambassador to the Hellenistic kingdom of Bithynia, T. Quinctius Flamininus, the general who defeated Macedon, demands that Hannibal should be surrendered in Roman hands. As king Prusias gives in, Hannibal commits suicide in the village of Libyssa, in order to escape captivity. The Roman Senate did not approve of Flamininus' action.
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150 BCEA Carthaginian army attacks Numidia, breaking the peace treaty agreed with Rome and sparking the Third Punic War.
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149 BCE - 146 BCE
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147 BCEScipio Africanus the Younger takes over command of the siege of Carthage and builds a mole to block its harbour.
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146 BCE
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146 BCEScipio Africanus the Younger sacks Carthage and enslaves its population.
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162 CEThe Antonine Baths at Carthage are completed.
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