Gaius Flaminius (consul 223 BC)
Roman politician and consul (c. 275 – 217 BC)
7 dated entries naming Gaius Flaminius (consul 223 BC), drawn from 6 separate years between 232 BCE and 217 BCE. 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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3rd century BC
- 232 BCEDespite the opposition of the Roman Senate and of his own father, the Roman political leader Gaius Flaminius wins the passage of a measure to distribute land among the plebeians. The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome (the Ager Gallicus) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen into ruin during the First Punic War.source
- 227 BCEGaius Flaminius becomes Rome's first governor of Sicily.source
- 223 BCEGaius Flaminius is elected consul for the first time and, with his co-consul Publius Furius Philus, he forces the Gauls south of the Alps to submit to Rome, creating the province of Cisalpine Gaul.source
- 221 BCEGaius Flaminius builds a second race track for Rome, the Circus Flaminius.source
- 220 BCEDuring his censorship, the Roman political leader, Gaius Flaminius, builds the Circus Flaminius on the Campus Martius and constructs the Via Flaminia from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini).source
- 217 BCEGaius Flaminius is re-elected consul with Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, in what is considered to be a rebuke of the Senate's prosecution of the war. Flaminius raises new legions and marches north to meet the Carthaginian general Hannibal.source
- 217 BCEGaius Flaminius, Roman consul and generalsource
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