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387 BC[2] – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.[3]
The Battle of the Allia was a battle fought c. 387 BC[1][2] between the Senones – a Gallic tribe led by Brennus, who had invaded Northern Italy – and the Roman Republic.
The battle was fought at the confluence of the Tiber and Allia rivers, 11 Roman miles (16 km, 10 mi) north of Rome. The Romans were routed and subsequently Rome was sacked by the Senones.[10] According to scholar Piero Treves, “the absence of any archaeological evidence for a destruction-level of this date suggests that [this] sack of Rome was superficial only.”[11]
The date of the battle has been traditionally given as 390 BC in the Varronian chronology, based on an account of the battle by the Roman historian Livy. Plutarch noted that the battle took place “just after the summer solstice when the moon was near the full […] a little more than three hundred and sixty years from the founding [of Rome],” or shortly after 393 BC.[12][13] The Greek historian Polybius used a Greek dating system to derive the year as having taken place in 387 BC, which is the most probable.[1][2] Tacitus listed the date as 18 July.[14][2]
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Born On This Day
1501 – Isabella of Austria, queen of Denmark (d. 1526)[19]
Isabella of Austria (18 July 1501 – 19 January 1526), also known as Elizabeth, was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King Christian II. She was the daughter of King Philip I and Queen Joanna of Castile and the sister of Emperor Charles V. She ruled Denmark as regent in 1520.[1]
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