They also fought alongside Hannibal, killing ( in 216 BC ) the Roman general L. Postumius Albinus, whose skull was then turned into a sacrificial bowl.

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

Once the Roman Senate resumed their consular elections in 216 BC, they appointed Gaius Terentius Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paullus as consuls.

Instead, he had to content himself with subduing the fortresses that still held out against him, and the only other notable event of 216 BC was the defection of certain Italian territories, including Capua, the second largest city of Italy, which Hannibal made his new base.

* 216 BC: Hannibal famously crushed the Roman legions at the Battle of Cannae.

During the Second Punic War ( 218 – 202 BC ), the Veneti even sent a contingent of soldiers to fight alongside the Romans against Hannibal and the invading Carthaginians and Venetians were among those slaughtered at the Battle of Cannae ( 216 BC ).

During the Second Punic War in 216 BC, Capua saw an opportunity to levy for more power.

In 216 and 205 BC it assisted Rome in the Second Punic War but afterwards it is not mentioned until 41-40 BC, when Lucius Antonius took refuge there, and was reduced by Octavian after a long siege, and its senators sent to their death.

* 216 BC

A revolt, led by two Sardo-Punic nobles, broke out after the crushing Roman defeat at Cannae ( 216 BC ).

Year 216 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 216 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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After the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War ( 216 BC ), Croton revolted from Rome, and Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years ; it was not recaptured until 205 or 204 BCE.

In 216 BC Antiochus ' army marched into western Anatolia to suppress the local rebellion led by Antiochus ' own cousin Achaeus, and had by 214 BC driven him from the field into Sardis.

His first expedition in 216 BC had to be aborted, while he suffered the loss of his whole fleet in a second expedition in 214 BC.

Following the Gallic wars, Marcellus seems to drift from the historical radar until the year 216 BC, ushering in the latter part of his life.

In 216 BC, the third year of the Second Punic War, Marcellus was elected praetor.

It is primarily known for the Battle of Cannae, in which the numerically superior Roman army suffered a disastrous defeat by Hannibal in 216 BC ( see Punic Wars ).

* Battle of Cannae 216 BC

** Mani ( c. 216 AD – 276 AD )

Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Scientific Congress 4: 197 – 216

* 1978 – Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.

* 15 – 64 years: 58. 1 % ( male 30, 216 / female 31, 004 )

* 1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece

Although most of the original writings of the founding prophet Mani ( in Persian: مانی, Syriac:, Latin: Manichaeus or Manes ) ( c. AD 216 – 276 ) have been lost, numerous translations and fragmentary texts have survived.

The Brewers went 72 – 43 under Kuenn for the rest of the season and went wild offensively, clubbing a then club-record 216 home runs during the season.

18, No. 2, Oct., 1986, pp. 216 – 230.

In the third Christian century Manichaeism spread both east and west from Babylonia, then within the Sassanid Empire, where its founder Mani lived about 216 – 276.

Scott & Foresman / Little & Brown Higher Education, 3rd edition 1990, ISBN 0-673-38638-4, pp. 216 – 221

* Charles Uyisenga, La participation de la colonie du Sénégal à l ' effort de guerre 1914 – 1918, Dakar, Université de Dakar, 1978, 216 pages ( Mémoire de Maîtrise )

With an estimated 16 – 33 million cases of typhoid fever annually resulting in 216, 000 deaths in endemic areas, the World Health Organization identifies typhoid as a serious public health problem.

* April 5 – A tornado hits Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 and injuring over 700 ( the 4th deadliest tornado in U. S. history ).

* April 4 – 1920 Palestine riots: Violence erupts between Arab and Jewish residents in Jerusalem ; 9 killed, 216 injured.

* 212 – 216: Baths of Caracalla.

* October – Twinings founder, Thomas Twining, opens the first known tea room at 216 Strand, London, still open.

28, No. 2 ( Jun., 1995 ), pp. 211 – 216 in JSTOR

: Penaeidae – 216 extant species in 26 genera, and several extinct genera, mostly Mesozoic

** Mani ( prophet ) ( c. 216 – 276 ), Iranian prophet

However the same Democratic Convention that had refused to endorse the proviso also rejected incorporating the Yancey proposal into the national platform by a 216 – 36 vote.

" The Source of Titus Andronicus ", Notes and Queries, 216: 2 ( Summer, 1971 ), 131 – 134

* 174 – 216 MHz: professional wireless microphones ( low power, certain exact frequencies only )