Lusitania

Roman province in Hispania (27 BC - c.410 AD)

8 dated entries naming Lusitania, drawn from 8 separate years between 147 BCE and 589 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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2nd century BC

  • 147 BCEIn Lusitania, Hispania, the Celtic king Viriathus, rallies Lusitanian resistance to Rome.source

1st century BC

  • 60 BCEGaius Julius Caesar suppresses an uprising and conquers all of Lusitania for Rome.source
  • 27 BCEAgrippa divides Hispania Ulterior into Baetica and Lusitania, and enlarges Hispania Citerior.source

1st century

  • 58The friendship between Nero and Marcus Salvius Otho ends when they both fall in love with Poppea Sabina, and Otho is sent to Lusitania as governor.source

5th century

  • 409October 13 – The Vandals, led by King Gunderic, cross the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula. They receive land from the Romans, as foederati, in Baetica (Southern Spain). The Alans occupy lands in Lusitania and the Suebi control parts of Gallaecia.source
  • 411The Alans establish their rule in the Roman province of Lusitania (Portugal south of the Duero River and Spain).source
  • 460Majorian invades Hispania; his generals Nepotianus and Sunieric lead a Visigoth army into Gallaecia. The Suebi are defeated and Lusitania (modern Portugal) is conquered.source

6th century

  • 589Claudius, duke (dux) of Lusitania, defeats the Franks and Burgundians at Carcassonne (Languedoc) on the Aude River.source

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