{"slug": "legio-vi-ferrata", "label": "Legio VI Ferrata", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_VI_Ferrata", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1164525", "qid": "Q1164525", "description": "Roman legion", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-45, 135], "span_label": ["46 BCE", "135 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "legio-x-fretensis", "label": "Legio X Fretensis", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "julius-caesar", "label": "Julius Caesar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arles", "label": "Arles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gnaeus-domitius-corbulo", "label": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-legion", "label": "Roman legion", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-armenia-antiquity", "label": "Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-temple", "label": "Roman temple", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -45, "year_label": "46 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Julius Caesar establishes Julia Paterna Arelate as a colony in Gaul for veterans of the Sixth Legion, at the present day site of Arles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361069033#Roman_Republic", "title": "46 BC", "revid": 1361069033, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 18, "year_label": "18 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, governor of Syria, ignores the order of Germanicus to send Syrian-based legions, including Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis, to Armenia to back him in his planned coronation of Artaxias III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371078816#Syria", "title": "10s", "revid": 1371078816, "section": "Events › 18 AD › Syria"}}, {"year": 54, "year_label": "54 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Domitius Corbulo marches his legions (Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X) into the mountains of Cappadocia and makes camp. He gives the men a harsh training, twenty-five-mile marches and weapons drills.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Anatolia", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 54 AD › Anatolia"}}, {"year": 59, "year_label": "59 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia. He installs Tigranes VI, a Cappadocian prince, as ruler of Armenia. For the next four years, a cohort from Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis is stationed in the capital as bodyguard to the king, supported by fifteen hundred auxiliaries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Caucasus", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 59 AD › Caucasus"}}, {"year": 62, "year_label": "62 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Vologases I leads the Parthian army in a full-scale assault on the Euphrates. Legio X Fretensis and men of the other two legions (Legio III Gallica and Legio VI Ferrata) defend the eastern bank of the river, fighting off a desperate attack.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363561412#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 62", "revid": 1363561412, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 135, "year_label": "135 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jerusalem is renamed Colonia Aelia Capitolina, in honor of Hadrian. Legio VI Ferrata rebuilds the legionary fortress in the city, and constructs a Roman temple at Golgotha.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1285604542#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 135", "revid": 1285604542, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}