{"slug": "gallia-belgica", "label": "Gallia Belgica", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallia_Belgica", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206443", "qid": "Q206443", "description": "Roman province (22 BC - 5th century)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-55, 481], "span_label": ["56 BCE", "481 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "flavius-aetius", "label": "Flavius Aetius", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "salian-franks", "label": "Salian Franks", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gepids", "label": "Gepids", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "heruli", "label": "Heruli", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sciri", "label": "Sciri", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "burgundians", "label": "Burgundians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arras", "label": "Arras", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -55, "year_label": "56 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Julius Caesar leads an attack on the Morini and the Menapii tribes of the Belgae on the North Sea. They withdraw into their forests, creating difficulties for Caesar's supply lines. The onset of bad weather forces him to pull back into Gallia Belgica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862293#Roman_Republic", "title": "56 BC", "revid": 1325862293, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 69, "year_label": "69 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In Gallia Belgica, cohors II Tungrorum, raised from the inhabitants of Atuatuca Tungrorum in the north-west of the Ardennes Forest, revolt against the Romans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367882081#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 69", "revid": 1367882081, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 435, "year_label": "435 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Roman general (magister militum) Flavius Aetius begins a campaign in Gaul against the Burgundians, following their raids into neighbouring Gallia Belgica by King Gunther.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339038049#Roman_Empire", "title": "435", "revid": 1339038049, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 448, "year_label": "448 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Flavius Aetius suppresses the Bagaudae in Armorica (Gaul), and defeats the Salian Franks under King Chlodio near Arras (Belgica Secunda); the invaders are stopped around a river-crossing near Vicus Helena.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330678266#Europe", "title": "448", "revid": 1330678266, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Attila gathers his vassals—Bastarnae, Gepids, Heruls, Ostrogoths, Rugians, Scirians and Thuringians (among others), and smashes through Germany, causing widespread panic and destruction. He arrives in Belgica with an army (50,000 men) and crosses the Rhine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 481, "year_label": "481 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Childeric I dies at Tournai after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his 15-year-old son Clovis, who becomes ruler of the Salian Franks in the province Gallia Belgica (modern Belgium) until his death in 511.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789382#Europe", "title": "481", "revid": 1340789382, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}