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Major Battles of the Roman Empire

Wars and Battles of Imperial Rome

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The major wars and battles of Imperial Rome can be divided into the following categories:
  • Germanic Wars
  • Roman Conquest of Britain
  • Parthian Wars
  • Jewish Wars
  • Civil Wars
  • Gothic Invasions of the Roman Empire
The following table shows the sequence of the battles.

Major Battles

9 Teutoburger Wald (Teutoburg Forest) ( 9)
Roman: Publius Quintilius Varus
Germanic: Arminius
31 Actium
Octavian and Agrippa
Antony and Cleopatra
civil war
43 Medway River Briton
61 Verulamium (St. Albans), Britain Briton
68 Jotapata in Palestine Jewish
70 Jerusalem Jewish
105 Sarmizegetusa (Sarmizegetuza)
Roman: Trajan
Dacian: Decebalus
Dacians
197/8 Ctesiphon in Iraq
Roman: Emperor Septimius Severus
Parthian: King Vologaeses V
Parthians
251 Abrittus
Roman: Emperor Decius
Gothic, Balkans
312 Milvian Bridge (Saxa Rubra) (27 October)
Constantine I
Maxentius
Romans
324 Adrianople (3 July)
Constantine
Licinius
Romans
350 Nisibis
Persian: Sapor II
Persia
357 Argentoratum
Roman: Emperor Julian
Alamanni: Chnodomarius
Alamanni
359 Amida
Persians: Sapor II
Persians
363 Ctesiphon in Iraq
Roman: Emperor Julian
Parthians
378 Adrianople (9 August)
Gothic
Byzantine
451 Catalaunian Plains (Chalons?) (June)
Roman:Theodoric I (Visigoths) and Aetius
Huns: Attila
Huns in Gaul

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