{"slug": "raetia", "label": "Raetia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raetia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156789", "qid": "Q156789", "description": "Roman province", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [-14, 865], "span_label": ["15 BCE", "865 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "switzerland", "label": "Switzerland", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "alps", "label": "Alps", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "moesia", "label": "Moesia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "augsburg", "label": "Augsburg", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germanic-tribes", "label": "Germanic tribes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "honorius", "label": "Honorius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aurelian", "label": "Aurelian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria", "label": "Austria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -14, "year_label": "15 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Raeti tribes of the Alps are subjugated by Tiberius and Nero Claudius Drusus and the new Roman province of Raetia is established with Chur (in modern-day Switzerland) as its capital. During the campaign, Roman triremes destroy the fleet of the Vindelici in the Battle of Lake Constance. Augsburg is founded as Augusta Vindelicorum; and Legio XXI Rapax is stationed at Regensburg in the new province.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372034323#Roman_Empire", "title": "15 BC", "revid": 1372034323, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": -14, "year_label": "15 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Drusus decides to improve the passage through the Alps for military control of Noricum and Raetia and builds the Via Claudia Augusta through Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372034323#Roman_Empire", "title": "15 BC", "revid": 1372034323, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 69, "year_label": "69 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Danubian legions of Raetia and Moesia proclaim Vespasian as emperor.", "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": 169, "year_label": "169 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Marcomannic Wars: Germanic tribes invade the frontiers of the Roman Empire, specifically the provinces of Raetia and Moesia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302818#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 169", "revid": 1371302818, "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"}}, {"year": 282, "year_label": "282 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The praetorian prefect Marcus Aurelius Carus usurps power in Raetia. Probus attempts to organise a campaign against Carus but is murdered by his discontented troops in Sirmium.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326553791#Roman_Empire", "title": "282", "revid": 1326553791, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 288, "year_label": "288 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Diocletian launches a campaign into Germanic territory from the province of Raetia (Switzerland).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326174976#Roman_Empire", "title": "288", "revid": 1326174976, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 360, "year_label": "360 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Alamanni raid Raetia (Switzerland), but are pushed back behind the Rhine by Julian, into the Black Forest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332419195#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 360", "revid": 1332419195, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 410, "year_label": "410 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "According to Zosimus, this is the year when Emperor Honorius sends his Rescript (diplomatic letters) to the Romano-British magistrates, ending Roman rule in Great Britain. However this is likely an example of scribal error. Most recently, David Woods has argued that the account refers instead to Raetia, a Roman province north of Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367642022#Roman_Empire", "title": "410", "revid": 1367642022, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 431, "year_label": "431 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aetius campaign in the Alps: Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum), fights the rebellion in Rhaetia (Switzerland) and Noricum (Austria). He is attested in the city of Vindelicia (modern Augsburg), reestablishing Roman rule on the Danube frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311961439#Roman_Empire", "title": "431", "revid": 1311961439, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 865, "year_label": "865 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. Carloman receives Bavaria (with more lands along the Inn River). He gives Saxony to Louis the Younger (with Franconia, and Thuringia) and Swabia (with Raetia) to Charles the Fat. Louis arranges marriages into the local aristocracy, for his sons to hold important territories along the frontiers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129586#Europe", "title": "865", "revid": 1341129586, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}