The Galatians were in their origin a part of the great Celtic migration which invaded Italy and Macedon, led by Brennus.

The Celts themselves often fought with Aquitanians and Germans, and a Gaulish war band led by Brennus invaded Rome c. 393 or 388 BC following the Battle of the Allia.

* Rome begins to rebuild after being invaded by the Gauls under Brennus.

* Brennus, leader of the army of Gauls who in 279 BC invaded Macedonia and northern Greece

John T. Koch proposes a number of parallels between the mythological Bendigeidfran and the historical Celtic chieftain Brennus, who invaded the Balkans in the 3rd century BC.

John T. Koch has suggested a number of parallels between Bendigeidfran and the historical Gaulish chieftain, Brennus, who invaded the Balkans in the third century B. C.

* An army of Gauls under Brennus invade Greece.

At the narrow pass of Thermopylae, on the east coast of central Greece, Brennus ' forces suffer heavy losses while trying to break through the Greek defence comprising the Phocians and the Aetolians.

When the main body under Brennus marched southwards into Macedonia and Greece ( 279 BC ), Leonnorius and Lutarius led a detachment, twenty-thousand strong, into Thrace, where they ravaged the country to the shores of the Hellespont, compelled the city of Byzantium to pay them tribute, and made themselves masters of Lysimachia.

They had split off from Brennus ' people in 279 BC, and had migrated into Thrace under their leaders Leonnorius and Lutarius.

* the " second " Brennus, Gaulish chieftain, invades Macedonia in 279 BC

In 279 BC a Gallic army led by Brennus initially engaged the Aetolians who were forced to make a tactical retreat and who were finally routed by the Thessalians and Malians by the river Spercheios.

The account is from Livy's Ab urbe condita and deals with a point in the history of Rome prior to reliable historical records ( virtually all prior records were destroyed by the Gauls when they sacked Rome under Brennus in 390 BC or 387 BC ).

The original tablets were destroyed when the Gauls under Brennus burnt Rome in 390 BC.

* Quintus Sulpicius Longus, tribunus militum consulari potestate in 390 BC, negotiated with Brennus, and persuaded him to leave Rome.

In 280 BC the Gallic invaders under Brennus ravaged the land of the Paeonians, who, being further hard pressed by the Dardani, had no alternative but to join the Macedonians.

After Rome was weakened by the Gauls of Brennus ( 390 BC ), Praeneste switched allegiances and fought against Rome in the long struggles that culminated in the Latin War.

One should note that Rome was indeed captured by Brennus following the Battle of the Allia on July 18, 390 BC.

Around 390 BC, the Gallic chieftain Brennus made his own way through the Alps, defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Allia and sacked Rome for several months.

Although its outline may go back to the 6th century BC, the currently extant wall was, it is estimated, built during the later Roman Republic, possibly as a way to prevent a repeat of the sack of Rome during Battle of the Allia by the Gauls of Brennus.

He defeated Bolgius, one of the earliest invading Gallic chiefs but was soon faced with the invasion of Brennus in the summer of 279 BC.

Allia, a stream flowing into the Tiber, is 11 miles from Rome and the site of the Battle of the Allia, where Romans were defeated by the Gauls under Brennus in 387 BC ( others date it 364 or 390 ).

* While Brennus is arguing over the weight of the gold with the Romans, the exiled dictator Marcus Furius Camillus appears with an army and refuses to allow him to take the gold.

As the Roman Dictator, Camillus negotiated with the Gallic leader Brennus, and the Gauls left Rome, camping nearby at the Gabinian road.

Marcus Furius Camillus was played by Massimo Serato in the 1963 film Brennus, Enemy of Rome.

When Gauls under the command of Brennus were attempting to scale the Capitoline, Manlius was roused by the cackling of the sacred geese, rushed to the spot, and threw down the foremost assailants.

One should note that Rome was indeed captured by Brennus following the Battle of the Allia on July 18, 390 BCE.

According to tradition, to add insult to injury, it was discovered that Brennus was using heavier weights than standard for weighing the gold.

In the nineties, a reactive armour package, named BRENUS or Brennus, was also developed for the AMX-30B2, but was issued only to two tank regiments, in peacetime combined into 1er / 2e Chasseurs, in France's rapid reaction force ; the other two regiments using the AMX-30, 2e / 5e Dragons, only had their tanks adapted for a possible relatively quick upgrade, in case of an emergency.

Brennus ' sack of Rome was still remembered by Romans, when Julius Caesar conquered the remainder of Gaul.

Quintus Fabius Ambustus was played by Tony Kendall in the 1963 film Brennus, Enemy of Rome.

However, seeing their city devastated, the Romans attempt to buy their salvation from Brennus.

The name is derived from the name of Brennus, the Gaul who sacked Rome, and comes from a Britonnic word meaning " raven ".

The winners of these semifinals qualify for the final at Stade de France, where the winner will be champions of the league and receive the Bouclier de Brennus.

The Red and Black only waited two more years to finally lay their hands on the Bouclier de Brennus, as they defeated Racing at the Parc des Princes.

Brennus pushes on to Delphi where he is defeated and forced to retreat, after which he dies of wounds sustained in the battle.

* Quintus Fabius Ambustus and two other Fabii are sent as ambassadors by Rome to a wandering tribe of Celts ( whom the Romans call Gauls ), under Brennus, who are advancing down the Tiber while the Celtic army is besieging Clusium.

* July 18 – Battle of the Allia: Brennus, a chieftain of the Senones of the Adriatic coast of Italy, leads an army of Cisalpine Gauls in their attack on Rome.

Eventually Brennus finds a way around the pass but the Greeks escape by sea.

* La Flagellation Passionnelle ( 1906 ) by Don Brennus Aléra, pseudonym of Roland Brévannes.

* Brennus, Enemy of Rome ( 1964 ) a. k. a. Battle of the Valiant, Gordon Mitchell