520 Celtic tribes advance into Italy.
450 La Tene era begins.
400BC Celtic invasion of Italy, Etruscans are expelled from the Po valley.
More than half the grain that reaches Athens is grown in fields off the Black Sea in Greek Scythia.
390 First contact with Romans at Clusium.
387 Gauls advance on Rome and burn it.
369 Celtic mercenaries fighting with Greece against Boetians.
335 Alexander meets Celts at the Danube. The Macedonians he leads were a Celtic tribe.
332 Senones sign a treaty with Rome.
330 Aristotle in his writings uses the example of the Celts to discuss t he nature of bravery.
300 P-Celtic speaking tribes arrive in Ireland from Britain.
298 Rome fights the Celts and others.
295 Battle of Sentinum, a Celtic defeat against Romans.
The Leponti settle Lake Maggiore, Italy.
The Senones settle on the Adriatic coast.
The Libici and Salluvii settle on the Ticina River.
The Trocini settle on the Dardenelles.
The elements of the Boii and Lingones cross the Alps and settle south of the Po River.
283 Roman victory at the Battle of the Vadimonian Lake over the Celts and other allies.
279 Celts invade Greece, moving first though Macedonia and then all the way to Delphi.
278 Celts reach the Dardanelles.
275 Celts settle the area of Galatia near Ankara.
Antiochus I defeats the Celts in Asia Minor.
264 Celtic mercenaries participated in the First Punic War.
225 Celts advance on Rome, battle Romans at Telamon in Tuscany. One of the Celtic leaders is named Brennus.
223 Roman legions advance into the Po valley.
218 Second Punic War, Celts ally with Carthage and Hannibal.
200 Rise of the Dacian state.
197 Battle of Lake Como where Romans defeat the Celts.
191 Battle of Bologna resulting from a Boii revolt.
Battle of Allia where the Senones and Lingones defeat the Romans on the left bank of the Tiber River.
189 Rome sends troops to Galatia to assist Peragamum to defeat the Selencids who were aided by Celtic mercenaries. These Celtic mercenaries stay and found Galatia in present day Turkey.
187 Celtic mercenaries were in Egypt.
175 Rome defeats the Celts in Northern Italy.
125 A Celtic tribe, the Salvuii, attacked the territory of Massilia which had a treaty with Rome. This action brings the Romans into Gaul for the first time.
124 Entremont, a Celtic settlement in Provence France, is defeated by Romans.
121 Allobroges and Averni defeated by the Romans aided by the Aedui.
120 The Boii defeat the Cimbri.
113 Celt-Iberians fight Romans.
109 Cimbri ally with the Teutons.
107 Celts defeat the Romans near Bordeaux (the only significant Celtic victory on Celtic soil).
105 The Battle of Aransio in which the Cimbri and Teutons defeat the Romans.
100 Celtic centers in London, St. Albans, Toulouse, Basel, Soissons, Bern, Bratislava, Magdalensberg, Karlstein, Turin, Bergano, and Milan.
90 The Salluvii revolt.
88 Another revolt of the Salluvii.
75 Belgian Celts cross the English Channel.
66 Allobroges revolt.
62 Another revolt by the Allobroges against Rome.
61 Caesar defeats the Celts in Spain.
Battle of Admagetobriga between Ariovistus and the Gauls (Celts).
59 Dacians defeat the Scordisci and attack the Boii and Taurisci.
58 Caesar begins to conquer Gaul.
56 Roman occupation of Brittany and Normandy.
The Venetii rebel on the Armorican Peninsula.
55 Caesar in Britain.
54 Revolt against the Romans led by the Eubrones.
52 Vercingetorix, one of the greatest Celtic chiefs is defeated.
Caesar has successfully conquered all of Gaul.
50 The La Tene era is over on the Continent.
This page is by far the best organized and best place for information on these subjects I have seen yet. This will definately help my research. “Myth is what we call other people’s religion” – you got that right! Love the sayings at the top of the pages!
Awesome work!
Most of this section is the work of Gerard Moran, mirrored here so it doesn’t disappear from online as so many things do. It was imho the best chronology I’d ever seen and worthy of mirroring. I’ve added a few things to it, too.
The correct original title of Berleth’s (great) book is The Twilight Lords: An Irish Chronicle.
Though I believe I’ve seen recent re-issues of it where they have changed the sub-title.
To All:
I’ve been doing some research on my grandfather. One of the things I was told was that he would recite a poem entitled “The Red Branch Knights”. Anyone out there know where I might learn the poet’s name and where to find a copy on line perhaps?
Thanks
Looking for John Rochford/Roachford Clinckett of England and Barbados (perhaps The Netherlands earlier).
You all have a incorrect statement in the section for the Vatican. You all say that Myles Keogh commanded the Battalion of St. Patrick, Keogh was only a Lieutenant in one of the Companies stationed at the port of Ancona. The Battalion commander was Major Myles W. O’Reilly. A brief history of the Major can be found online. There is a good history of this Battalion that was written by G.F.H. Berkley in 1929, and is titled “The Irish Battalion in the Papal Army of 1860.”
Kenneth H. Robison II.
The biggest mistake the Irish people ever made was supporting James II at the Battle of the Boyne.James abandoned the battlefield like a true coward, and left his army who were already in deep trouble due to his tactical blunders to their fate.The Irish themselves nicknamed him “James the shit” for galloping away from the field.
I’m a Canadian of mostly Irish ancestry (and some distant English Protestant roots) but I have to say that it’s no surprise to me that my Irish ancestors suffered(very sadly) the full force of the Penal laws for so long.The English never trusted Irish Catholics not to plot with their enemies the French(I have French roots to) against them.Over time Englishmen began to associate Catholicism with invasion by foreigners and outside interference by Rome in their affairs of state.