* 218 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.

He served twice as Roman Consul and Roman Censor, and in 218 BC he took part in the embassy to Carthage.

It was this expansion that led to the Second Punic War when Carthage besieged the Roman protected town of Saguntum in 218 BC, igniting a conflict with Rome.

Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a scant two years later in 218 BC by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulish-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law.

Starting in the spring of 218 BC, he crossed the Pyrenees and, by conciliating the Gaulish chiefs along his passage, reached the River Rhône before the Romans could take any measures to bar his advance.

The alpine invasion of Italy was a military operation that would shake the Mediterranean World of 218 BC with repercussions for more than two decades.

The Lusitani are mentioned for the first time in Livy ( 218 BC ) and are described as fighting for the Carthaginians ; they are reported as fighting against Rome in 194 BC, sometimes allied with Celtiberian tribes.

The Second Punic War occurred from 218 – 201 BC ; its central event was Hannibal's invasion of Italy.

Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a mere two years later ( 218 BC ) by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulo-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law Hasdrubal.

After assaulting Saguntum, Hannibal surprised the Romans in 218 BC by leading the Iberians and three dozen elephants through the Alps.

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The Second Punic War, also referred to as The Hannibalic War, ( by the Romans ) The War Against Hannibal, or " The Carthaginian War ", lasted from 218 to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean.

The result was a Roman victory in the battle of Cissa in 218 BC.

They had lost all but one major naval engagement in the First Punic War and in 218 BC a naval engagement in the waters of Lilybaeum had been lost despite numerical superiority.

In 218 BC preparations were made to launch a Roman expedition from the same Lilybaeum against Africa.

* 218 BC: Second Punic War begins.

The Roman republic in 218 BC ( all colours except white and blue ).

The Roman empire in 218 BC ( in dark red )

Year 218 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 218 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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The islands later came under the control of Carthage ( 400 BC ) and then of the Roman Republic ( 218 BC ).

The Second Punic War ( 218 BCE – 201 BCE ) is most remembered for the Carthaginian Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.

Ticino was the location of the Battle of Ticinus, the first battle of the Second Punic War fought between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and the Romans under Publius Cornelius Scipio in November 218 BC, and the first battle on Italian soil.

The Battle of the Trebia ( or Trebbia ) was the first major battle of the Second Punic War, fought between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and the Roman Republic in December of 218 BC, on or around the winter solstice.

The expedition led by Gnaeus Scipio in 218 BC had caught the Carthaginians by surprise, and before Hasdrubal could join Hanno, the Carthaginian commander on the North of Ebro River, the Romans had fought and won the Battle of Cissa and established their army at Tarraco and their fleet at Emporiae.

This strategy derives its name from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the dictator of the Roman Republic given the task of defeating the great Carthaginian general Hannibal in southern Italy during the Second Punic War ( 218 – 202 BC ).

During the Carthaginian general Hannibal's invasion of Italy ( 218 BC – 203 BC ), Roman military control of the Pianura Padana was temporarily overthrown.

The Battle of Ticinus was a battle of the Second Punic War fought between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and the Romans under Publius Cornelius Scipio in November 218 BC.

The Phoenician and Carthaginian tombs were also used by the Romans, who occupied our islands way back to 218 before Christ.

On the good side, the TV income was increased from € 75, 150, 744 to € 78, 041, 642 as well as gate income increased, from € 23, 821, 218 to € 31, 017, 179.

Gallienus (; c. 218 – 268 ) was Roman Emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260, and alone from 260 to 268.

Based on the testimony of John Malalas and the Epitome de Caesaribus that Gallienus was about 50 years old at the time of his death, it is generally considered he was born around 218, son of Valerian and Mariniana, a woman possibly of senatorial rank and possibly a daughter of Egnatius Victor Marinianus, and brother of Valerianus Minor.

203 – 11 March 222 ), also known as Heliogabalus, was Roman Emperor from 218 to 222.

Macrinus was defeated on 8 June 218, at the Battle of Antioch.

The race has been held since 1861 ( see list of Melbourne Cup winners ) and was originally held over two miles ( about 3, 218 metres ) but following preparation for Australia's adoption of the metric system in the 1970s, the current race distance of 3, 200 metres was established in 1972.

In the 3rd century Syria was home to Elagabalus, a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222.

The catalogue was published in June 1997 and contains 118, 218 stars ; an updated version with re-processed data was published in 2007.

The Roman city most likely began as a small military camp, built by the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio in 218 BC to guard a wooden bridge he had built over the river Ticinum, on his way to search for Hannibal, who was rumoured to have managed to lead an army over the Alps and into Italy.

Year 218 ( CCXVIII ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

The French word was derived from the Spanish embarazar, whose first recorded usage was in 1460 in Cancionero de Stúñiga ( Songbook of Stúñiga ) by Álvaro de Luna .< sup > 7 </ sup > The Spanish word likely comes from the Portuguese embaraçar, which probably is a combination of the prefix em-( from Latin in-for " in -") with baraça " a noose ", or " rope ", which makes sense with the synonym encinta (" on noose, on rope " because of the old usage of women to wear a strap of cloth on their dresses when pregnant ).< sup > 8 </ sup > Baraça originated before the Romans began their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BCE .< sup > 9 </ sup > Thus, baraça could be related to the Celtic word barr, " tuft ".

Some of them are important commercial fishery species, notably small yellow croaker with reported landings of 218, 00 – 407, 000 tonnes in 2000 – 2009 ; based on the FAO fishery statistics from 2009, it was the 25th most important fishery species worldwide.

As the Reds ' leadoff man, he was the team's catalyst, rapping 218 hits, walking 88 times and pacing the league in runs with 120.

The seconardy sector was led by general manufacturing, with income there totalling ¥ 218. 4 billion.

Although the exact date of its foundation is unknown, it is known that it was already in existence in the 3rd century BC, for in 218 BC, during Hannibal's invasion of Italy, the Boii revolted and laid siege to the city.