Year 216 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Varro and Paullus (or, less frequently...

Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians...

The First Battle of Nola was fought in 216 BC between the forces of Hannibal and a Roman force led by Marcus Claudius Marcellus. Hannibal was attempting...

During 216 BC the Macedonian king, Philip V, pledged his support to Hannibal, initiating the First Macedonian War against Rome in 215 BC. In 211 BC Rome...

Aemilius Paullus (died 2 August 216 BC), also spelled Paulus, was a consul of the Roman Republic twice, in 219 and 216 BC. He is primarily remembered for...

Gaius Octavius (fl. 216 BC) was a Roman army officer who was active during the third century BC. He was the son of the equestrian Gaius Octavius and grandson...

historian". Much of Polybius's account of the Second Punic War is missing after 216 BC or only exists in fragmentary form. As a result, the main source for much...

Hannibal found comfortable quarters in the Apulian plain. In the spring of 216 BC, Hannibal took the initiative and seized the large supply depot at Cannae...

butcher, he was a populist politician who was elected consul for the year 216 BC. While holding that office, he was decisively defeated by Hannibal at the...

219 BC), Roman consul who died at the Battle of Cannae (part of the Second Punic War) in 216 BC Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229–160 BC), Roman...

northwest of the Roman city of Ariminum during the Second Punic War in 216 BC. The Gallic Boii surprised and destroyed a Roman army under the consul-elect...

he spent 216 BC crushing the Iberian rebels near Gades. Hannibal Barca had defeated the Romans at the Battle of Cannae in August of 216 BC, resulting...

(approximate date). 217 BC Xin Zhui, a Han dynasty noblewoman 216 BC Liu Pi, Chinese prince and general of the Han Dynasty (d. 154 BC) 215 BC Antiochus IV Epiphanes...

Hannibal's War. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 64-6, 85. ISBN 0-8061-3004-0. "August 3, 216 B.C. - Cannae; Was Maharbal Correct?". Total War Forum thread....

numerically superior Roman army suffered a disastrous defeat by Hannibal in 216 BC (see Punic Wars). There is a considerable controversy as to whether the...

pincer movement. A famous example of its use was at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, when Hannibal executed the maneuver against the Romans. Military historians...

possibly based on the Greek xiphos. Later, during the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, they found Hannibal's Celtiberian mercenaries wielding swords that excelled...

The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical Era, epoch, or historical...

succession of Rome. Millennia: 1st BC · 1st–2nd Centuries: 7th BC · 6th BC · 5th BC · 4th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st BC · 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th ·...

(tribune 216 BC) (fl. 216 BC), military tribune Gaius Octavius (proconsul) (c. 100–59 BC), praetor in 61 BC Augustus or Gaius Octavius Thurinus (63 BC–AD 14)...

BC, and is considered to have ended around the assassination of Dictator Julius Caesar, Augustus' great-uncle and adoptive father, on 15 March 44 BC....

Terentius Varro, one of the Roman commanders at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, was the first to hold the consulship. Members of this family are found...

Gaius Octavius (c. 100 – 59 BC) was a Roman politician. He was an ancestor to the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was the biological father...

Regulus defeat the Gauls. 222 BC – Battle of Clastidium – Romans under Marcus Claudius Marcellus defeat the Gauls. 216 BC - Battle of Silva Litana - Roman...

Gnaeus Servilius Geminus (died August 2, 216 BC) was a Roman consul, serving as both general and admiral of Roman forces, during the Second Punic War....

at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC. Rome nonetheless managed to win the Second Punic War thanks to Scipio Africanus in 201 BC. After its defeat, Carthage...

Gaugamela (331 BC). Alexander the Great annihilated a much larger Persian army, thus ultimately conquering the Middle-east. Battle of Cannae (216 BC). Hannibal...

infrastructure, and urbanized culture continued largely unchanged. In 216 BC, two Sardo-Punic notables from Cornus and Tharros, Hampsicora and Hanno...

numerous social class, assessed at under 400 drachmae wealth in c. 216 BC) were until c. 200 BC ineligible for legionary service and were assigned to the fleets...

The Lyttian War was an internal conflict fought from around 220 BC to about 216 BC between two coalitions of Cretan city-states, led by Knossos and Polyrrhenia...