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Batavian soldiers consecrate an altar to Hercules Magusanus in Rome

Batavian soldiers consecrate an altar to Hercules Magusanus in Rome

Batavian soldiers consecrate an altar to Hercules Magusanus in Rome

Events Before

  1. BC Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army unde

    BC Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under the command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro

  2. BC Battle of Lake Trasimene: Carthaginian general Hannibal defeats a Roman army headed by Consul Gaius Flaminius during

    BC Battle of Lake Trasimene: Carthaginian general Hannibal defeats a Roman army headed by Consul Gaius Flaminius during the Second Punic War; Flaminius is killed

  3. BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom

    Antiochus III the Great (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίοχος ὁ Μέγας, Antíokhos ho Mégas; c. 241 BC – 3 July 187 BC) was the sixth ruler of the Seleucid Empire, reigning from 223 BC to 187 BC.

  4. BC Battle of the Trebia: Hannibal's Carthaginian army heavily defeats Roman forces on Italian soil during the Second Pun

    BC Battle of the Trebia: Hannibal's Carthaginian army heavily defeats Roman forces on Italian soil during the Second Punic War

  5. 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

    7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

Events After

  1. Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate s

    Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty

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Batavian soldiers consecrate an altar to Hercules Magusanus in Rome

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