{"slug": "gaius-flaminius-consul-223-bc", "label": "Gaius Flaminius (consul 223 BC)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Flaminius_%28consul_223_BC%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318879", "qid": "Q318879", "description": "Roman politician and consul (c. 275 – 217 BC)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [-231, -216], "span_label": ["232 BCE", "217 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "first-punic-war", "label": "First Punic War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-legion", "label": "Roman legion", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hannibal", "label": "Hannibal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alps", "label": "Alps", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cisalpine-gaul", "label": "Cisalpine Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rimini", "label": "Rimini", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -231, "year_label": "232 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Despite the opposition of the Roman Senate and of his own father, the Roman political leader Gaius Flaminius wins the passage of a measure to distribute land among the plebeians. The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome (the Ager Gallicus) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen into ruin during the First Punic War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319908071#Roman_Republic", "title": "232 BC", "revid": 1319908071, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -226, "year_label": "227 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Flaminius becomes Rome's first governor of Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288758207#Roman_Republic", "title": "227 BC", "revid": 1288758207, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -222, "year_label": "223 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Flaminius is elected consul for the first time and, with his co-consul Publius Furius Philus, he forces the Gauls south of the Alps to submit to Rome, creating the province of Cisalpine Gaul.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243366265#Roman_Republic", "title": "223 BC", "revid": 1243366265, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -220, "year_label": "221 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Flaminius builds a second race track for Rome, the Circus Flaminius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1246108993#Roman_Republic", "title": "221 BC", "revid": 1246108993, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -219, "year_label": "220 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "During his censorship, the Roman political leader, Gaius Flaminius, builds the Circus Flaminius on the Campus Martius and constructs the Via Flaminia from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598324#Roman_Republic", "title": "220 BC", "revid": 1360598324, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -216, "year_label": "217 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Flaminius is re-elected consul with Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, in what is considered to be a rebuke of the Senate's prosecution of the war. Flaminius raises new legions and marches north to meet the Carthaginian general Hannibal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223252#Roman_Republic", "title": "217 BC", "revid": 1306223252, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -216, "year_label": "217 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Flaminius, Roman consul and general", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223252#Deaths", "title": "217 BC", "revid": 1306223252, "section": "Deaths"}}]}