Carthage Timeline of Events

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Carthage , implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC...

Timeline of Events

202BC

10.19.202 BC

Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army.

439

10.19.439

The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

533

9.13.533

General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.

10.15.533

Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.