B.C.
1200:
Goidelic Celts invade England
900:
Brythonic and Belgic Celts invade England
350:
Pytheas of Marseilles explores the North Sea
248:
Arsacid Dynasty begins in Parthia
241-10:
Sicily becomes a province
238:
Sardinia and Corsica acquired
211-190:
Arsaces II of Parthia
197:
Spain acquired
170-38:
Mithridates I of Parthia
168:
Macedonia acquired
167:
Illyricum
146:
Achaea, “Africa,” Epirus
145-130:
Ptolemy VII
135-105:
John Hyrcanus, King of Judea
135-51:
Poseidonius
133:
Attalus III bequeaths Pergamum
124-88:
Mithridates II of Parthia
121:
Gallia Narbonensis
112-05:
The Jugurthine War
110:
Philo of Byzantium, physicist
104-78:
Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judea
102:
Cilicia; Pamphylia
88-4:
First Mithridatic War
88:
Massacre of Romans in Near East
83-1:
Second Mithridatic War
78-69:
Alexandra, Queen of Judea
76:
Timomachus of Byzantium, painter
75-63:
Third Mithridatic War
74:
Bithynia
74-67:
Cyrene and Crete
69-63:
Aristobulus II, King of Judea
64:
Syria
63:
Pontus and Judea become Roman provinces
63-40:
Hyrcanus II, King of Judea
58:
Cyprus
58-50:
Caesar conquers Gaul
55,54:
Caesar in Britain
50:
Hero of Alexandria; Meleager of Gadara
46:
Numidia
40:
Parthians invade Syria
37-4:
Herod the Great
30:
Egypt
25:
Galatia
B.C.
25-4:
Aelius Gallus’ expedition into Arabia Felix
17:
Upper and Lower Germany acquired
15:
Noricum; Raetia
14:
Maritime Alps
11:
Moesia
7:
Fl. Strabo, geographer
4(?):
Birth of Christ
B.C.. 4-6 A.D.:
Archelaus, King of Judea; Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee
A.D 17:
Cappadocia
40:
Mauretania
43:
Britain
47:
Revolt of Caractacus
50:
Dioscorides, pharmacologist
51-63:
War between Parthia and Rome
55-60:
Corbulo subjugates Armenia
Revolt of Boudicca
64:
Cottian Alps
70-80:
Roman conquest of Wales
77-84:
Agricola, governor of Britain
72:
Extinction of Seleucid Dynasty
89:
Plutarch in Rome
90:
Epictetus
95:
Dio Chrysostom
100:
Apollodorus of Damascus, architect
105:
Arabia Petrea
107:
Dacia
114:
Armenia, Assyria, Mesopotamia
115:
Soranus of Ephesus, physician
117:
Hadrian relinquishes Armenia and Assyria
120:
Marinus of Tyre, geographer
122:
Hadrian’s Wall in England
130:
Aelia Capitolina founded on site of Jerusalem; Theon of Smyrna, mathematician; Arrian of Nicomedia, historian; Claudius Ptolemy, astronomer
142:
Wall of Antoninus Pius in England
147-91:
Vologeses III of Parthia
150:
Lucian; Aelius Aristides
160:
Galen, physician; Pausanias, geographer
190:
Sextus Empiricus, philosopher
227:
End of the Arsacid Dynasty