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Roman Hispania

Hispania Romana

Six centuries of Roman Hispania: Numantia, the emperors it gave Rome, and the Visigoths who inherited it.

Span
218 BCE – 5th century CE
Entries
16
  1. 218 BC

    Second Punic WarMilitary

    Gnaeus Scipio lands at Emporion

    While Hannibal marches north through Gaul towards the Alps, the consul's brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio disembarks at the Greek colony of Emporion and opens the Iberian front of the Second Punic War.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  2. 209 BC

    Second Punic WarMilitary

    Scipio storms New Carthage

    The 25-year-old Publius Cornelius Scipio takes the Barcid capital Qart Hadasht in a single day, wading his men through the lagoon at low tide while a feint engages the seaward walls.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  3. 206 BC

    End of Punic IberiaMilitary

    Ilipa and the end of Carthaginian Iberia

    At Ilipa on the Guadalquivir, Scipio outmanoeuvres Hasdrubal Gisco and Mago Barca and shatters the last great Carthaginian army in Iberia, ending three centuries of Punic presence in the peninsula.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  4. 197 BC

    Early Roman IberiaPolitical

    Hispania becomes two provinces

    Rome divides the conquered ground into Hispania Citerior on the eastern seaboard and Hispania Ulterior in the south, each governed by a praetor — the first Roman provinces outside Italy and Sicily.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  5. 139 BC

    Lusitanian WarMilitary

    The murder of Viriathus

    After eight years of guerrilla war that had humbled successive Roman armies in the western sierras, the Lusitanian leader Viriathus is murdered in his sleep by three of his own envoys, bribed by the proconsul Servilius Caepio.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  6. 133 BC

    Celtiberian WarsMilitary

    The fall of Numantia

    After a fifteen-month blockade by Scipio Aemilianus, the Celtiberian hill-town of Numantia falls. Most of its defenders have killed themselves or one another rather than surrender; the survivors are sold into slavery and the city is razed.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  7. 72 BC

    Sertorian WarMilitary

    The death of Sertorius

    After almost a decade as the de facto ruler of an independent Roman state in Hispania, Quintus Sertorius is murdered at a banquet by his own lieutenant Marcus Perperna, who is in turn quickly crushed by Pompey.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  8. 45 BC

    Civil WarsMilitary

    Caesar wins at Munda

    On the plain of Munda in Hispania Ulterior, Caesar destroys the last Pompeian army under Pompey's sons Gnaeus and Sextus in a battle so close that he afterwards said he had at last fought not for victory but for his life.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  9. 8 more entries, to AD 476