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Dacia

Balkan kingdom of the Dacians (168 BC-106 AD)

26 dated entries naming Dacia, drawn from 25 separate years between 713 BCE and 632 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century BC

1st century BC

  • 82 BCEBurebista unifies the Dacian population forming the first (and biggest) unified Dacian Kingdom, on the territory of modern Romania and surroundings. 82 BC is also the starting year of his reign.source
  • 44 BCEComosicus succeeds Burebista as king of Dacia.source

1st century

  • 34The original inhabitants of Dacia revolt against the Sarmatian tribe of Iazyges, who had enslaved them.source
  • 85Dacians under Decebalus engage in two wars against the Romans from this year to AD 88 or 89.source
  • 86First Battle of Tapae: Roman legions face disaster in Dacia, when Roman general Cornelius Fuscus launches a powerful offensive that becomes a failure. Encircled in the valley of Timi, he dies along with his entire army. Rome must pay tribute to the Dacians in exchange for a vague recognition of Rome's importance.source
  • 87Decebalus becomes king of Dacia.source
  • 89Legio XIII Gemina is transferred to Dacia, to help in the war against King Decebalus.source

2nd century

  • 101Emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Roman Empire set by Augustus.source
  • 102Emperor Trajan returns to Rome after a successful campaign against Dacia, through which he reestablishes clear Roman sovereignty over King Decebalus.source
  • 104Apollodorus of Damascus builds a stone bridge over the Danube more than 1,000 m ft long, almost 20 m ft high and 15 m ft wide. The bridge connects what is now Serbia with Romania (at the time known as Dacia).source
  • 105Emperor Trajan starts the second expedition against Dacia; he leaves with the Imperial Roman fleet from Brundusium.source
  • 106Decebalus, king of Dacia (suicide, being pursued by the Romans) (b. AD 87)source
  • 106August 11 – The south-eastern part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia. The veterans of the legions are given land in the new province for their service in the Roman army.source
  • 157A revolt against Roman rule begins in Dacia.source
  • 158A revolt against Roman rule in Dacia is crushed.source
  • 166Dacia is invaded by barbarians.source
  • 170The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They reach Eleusina, near Athens, and destroy the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries.source
  • 171The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They reach Eleusis, near Athens, and destroy the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries.source

3rd century

  • 256The Goths invade Asia Minor. Dacia is lost for the Roman Empire, and the Goths appear at the walls of Thessalonica.source
  • 271Aurelian withdraws Rome's administrative and military presence from Dacia (modern Romania), thereby rationalizing the Danube frontier and freeing resources for the forthcoming campaign against Zenobia.source

4th century

  • 315Constantine the Great and co-emperor Licinius battle the Sarmates, the Goths and the Carpians along the Danube. Constantine leads a punitive expedition into Dacia and reestablishes the Roman fortifications of the frontier.source
  • 383Emperor Theodosius I cedes Dacia and Macedonia to Valentinian II. They recognize Magnus Maximus as Augustus.source

5th century

  • 457February 7 – Leo I, a Thraco-Roman (or Dacian) high-ranking officer, becomes the new emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, reigning for nearly 20 years. He is first to accept the Byzantine crown from the hands of the patriarch of Constantinople.source
  • 466Emperor Leo I repels the Hun invasion of Dacia (modern Romania). They ravage the Balkans but are unable to take Constantinople thanks to the city walls, which are rebuilt and reinforced.source

7th century

  • 632Kubrat, ruler of the Dulo clan, takes power from the Pannonian Avars and establishes Old Great Bulgaria in the area of Black Cumania. Kubrat's rule stretches from Dacia to Poltava.source

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