{"slug": "gallic-empire", "label": "Gallic Empire", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Empire", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273025", "qid": "Q273025", "description": "mid-3rd century breakaway state from the Roman Empire", "entries": 9, "years": 7, "span": [259, 275], "span_label": ["259 CE", "275 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-britain", "label": "Roman Britain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aurelian", "label": "Aurelian", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gallienus", "label": "Gallienus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-legion", "label": "Roman legion", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hispania", "label": "Hispania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-province", "label": "Roman province", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "trier", "label": "Trier", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palmyrene-empire", "label": "Palmyrene Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 259, "year_label": "259 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Postumus revolts against Gallienus in Gaul. The western provinces of Britain and Spain join his independent realm—which is called in modern times the Gallic Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331138913#Roman_Empire", "title": "259", "revid": 1331138913, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 260, "year_label": "260 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Postumus, Roman usurper, forms the Gallic Empire and protects the Rhine against an invasion of Germanic tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187251#Roman_Empire", "title": "260", "revid": 1371187251, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 265, "year_label": "265 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Gallienus tries twice to crush the usurper Postumus, but on the first occasion Aureolus, commander of the elite cavalry, carelessly lets him escape. The second time, Gallienus sustains an arrow wound and has to break off his siege of a Gallic town where Postumus has holed up. He makes no other serious attempt to overcome his rival, instead devoting his attention to the political and military problems in the Danube and eastern parts of the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369159579#Roman_Empire", "title": "265", "revid": 1369159579, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 268, "year_label": "268 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Victorinus is declared emperor of the Gallic Empire by the legions at Augusta Treverorum (Trier), following the murders of his predecessors. He is recognized by the provinces of Gaul and Britain, but Hispania might have reunited with the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325890231#Europe", "title": "268", "revid": 1325890231, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 268, "year_label": "268 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Postumus, Roman emperor of the Gallic Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325890231#Deaths", "title": "268", "revid": 1325890231, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 271, "year_label": "271 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire, is assassinated by one of his officers, Attitianus, reportedly for reasons of personal revenge. He is succeeded by Tetricus I, who is elevated with the help of Victorinus' mother Victoria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347633744#Europe", "title": "271", "revid": 1347633744, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 271, "year_label": "271 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Domitian II, emperor of the Gallic Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347633744#Deaths", "title": "271", "revid": 1347633744, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 274, "year_label": "274 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Châlons: The Emperor Aurelian invades Gaul to campaign against the Gallic Empire (Gaul and Britain). In the Catalaunian Plains, the Romano-Gallic Emperor Tetricus I surrenders to Aurelian and leaves his army without an emperor. The Gallic army is then crushed by Aurelian in a major battle. With the conquests of the Palmyrene Empire and the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire is united again. However, the heavy losses incurred by the Gallic forces compromises the Rhine frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271086341#Roman_Empire", "title": "274", "revid": 1271086341, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 275, "year_label": "275 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Aurelian puts down unrest in Gaul, and defeats Germanic incursions into Gaul and Raetia (these problems had been caused by Aurelian's defeat and overthrow of the Gallic Empire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1308801318#Roman_Empire", "title": "275", "revid": 1308801318, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}