After siding with Pescennius Niger against the victorious Septimius Severus, the city was besieged by Roman forces and suffered extensive damage in 196 AD.

His sometime rival Severus promised him the title of Caesar in return for Albinus ' support against Pescennius Niger in the east.

After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus.

The legions of Syria, however, had proclaimed Pescennius Niger emperor.

The following year he led another, more successful campaign against the Parthian Empire, reportedly in retaliation for the support given to Pescennius Niger.

* King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger.

* The Roman governors Clodius Albinus ( Britannia ) and Pescennius Niger ( Syria ) claim with support of their troops the imperial throne.

* Battle of Issus: Emperor Septimius Severus marches with his army ( 12 legions ) to Cilicia and defeats Pescennius Niger, governor of Syria.

* Pescennius Niger, Roman usurper ( b. 140 )

War broke out in Dacia: few details are available, but it appears two future contenders for the throne, Clodius Albinus and Pescennius Niger, both distinguished themselves in the campaign.

Pescennius Niger (; c. 135-140 – 194 ) was a Roman usurper from 193 to 194 during the Year of the Five Emperors.

Coin of Pescennius Niger, bearing the inscription ( IMPERATOR CAESAR GAIVS PESCENNIVS NIGER IVSTVS AVGVSTVS CONSVL II )

* Historia Augusta, Life of Pescennius Niger

* http :// www. roman-emperors. org / pniger. htm Meckler, Michael L, " Pescennius Niger ( 193-194 A. D .)", De Imperatoribus Romanis

When news of the public anger in Rome spread across the Empire, the generals Pescennius Niger in Syria, Septimius Severus in Pannonia, and Clodius Albinus in Britain, each having three legions under his command, refused to recognize the authority of Julianus.

Immediately afterwards, Pescennius Niger was proclaimed Emperor by the legions in Syria ; Septimius Severus by the troops in Illyricum and Pannonia ; and Albinus by the armies in Britain and Gaul.

When Didius Julianus was put to death by order of the Senate, who dreaded the power of Septimius Severus, the latter turned his arms against Pescennius Niger.

In AD 193, the city was sacked by the governor of Syria, Pescennius Niger, in his revolt against the new emperor, Septimius Severus.

Septimius Severus considered Antioch to be more degenerate than Laodicea, and sought to punish Antioch for having supported the aspirations of his rival Pescennius Niger.

The city flourished until the civil war between Septimius Severus and Pescennius Niger in 198 – 9 CE.

XIV Gemina fought for its emperor in his march to Rome to attack usurper Didius Julianus ( 193 ), contributed to the defeat of the usurper Pescennius Niger ( 194 ), and probably fought in the Parthian campaign that ended with the sack of the capital of the empire, Ctesiphon ( 198 ).

The legion fought against Severus ' rival, Pescennius Niger, besieging Byzantium together with XI Claudia, fighting at Issus.

In 194, Pescennius Niger, governor of the province of Syria, rebelled with the support of, among others, II Traiana Fortis.

* AD 193-Leg III supported Lucius Pescennius Niger in his failed attempt to take the throne after Emperor Commodus during yet another Roman Civil War.

After eliminating Didius ( 193 ) and then defeating the governor of Syria, Pescennius Niger ( 194 ), a successful campaign in the East ( 195 ) was launched.

A similar revolt broke out in 193, when Pescennius Niger was proclaimed emperor on the death of Pertinax.

* Year of the Five Emperors ( 193 AD ) where after the first emperor was assassinated and the second executed, the last three, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and Septimius Severus fought for the throne.

In 193, the legion supported Pescennius Niger against Septimius Severus, and was possibly involved in a local struggle between Jews and Samaritans.

Pescennius retreats to Antioch and is executed by Severus ' troops.

" The Historia Augusta also refers to an attack by Saraceni on Pescennius Niger's army in Egypt in 193 CE but provides little information on who they might have been.

# Public Sale of the Empire to Didius Julianus by the Praetorian Guards – Clodius Albinus in Britain, Pescennius Niger in Syria, and Septimius Severus in Pannonia, declare against the Murderers of Pertinax – Civil Wars and Victory of Severus Over his Three Rivals – Relaxation of Discipline – New Maxims of Government

Septimius Severus commanded the Pannonian legions, and led them successfully against Didius Julianus near Rome in 193, and defeated Pescennius Niger in 194.

* Cassius Clemens, brought to trial circa AD 195, for having espoused the side of Gaius Pescennius Niger, defended himself with such dignity that Septimius Severus granted him his life and allowed him to retain half his property.

There is opposition from first Pescennius Niger and then Clodius Albinus

An explosion midflight over the Sahara Desert in Niger caused the aircraft to break up, killing all 156 passengers and 15 crew members, including the U. S. Ambassador to Chad Robert Pugh.

The Portuguese colonisers were expelled from Cape Bojador and from Cap Blanc and the borders of Morocco were moved up to the Senegal River in the south-west and to the Niger River in the south-east ( see: Battle of Tondibi in 1591 ).

* Republic of Niger – Young Pioneers ( Niger )/ Jeunes Pionniers ( 1961 – 1974 ) non-communist youth paramilitary group, one of several set up in post independence Africa, funded by and modeled on the Israeli Nahal (" Fighting Pioneer Youth ").

Nomads such as the Tuareg and Fulani, who make up about 20 % of Niger's 12. 9 million population, had been so badly hit by the Niger food crisis that their already fragile way of life is at risk.

On the West African coast they set up Zāwiyas on the shores of the river Niger and even established independent kingdoms such as al-Murābiṭūn or Almoravids. The Al Hakika Mizaan Mizaani Sufi Order deals with heavy internalization and meditations, their spiritual practice is called Al Qudra MizaanStates ) The Sanusi order were also highly involved in missionary work in Africa during the 19th century, spreading both Islam and a high level of literacy into Africa as far south as Lake Chad and beyond by setting up a network of zawiyas where Islam was taught.

In the 2005 movie Sahara, a Confederate ironclad warship is said to be steaming up the Niger River under a " banner of a single star.

Park had at that time adopted the theory that the Niger and the Congo were one, and in a memorandum drawn up before he left Britain he wrote: " My hopes of returning by the Congo are not altogether fanciful.

The DC-10 breaks up in mid-air and crashes near Bilma and Ténéré in Niger, killing all 170 people on board.

Forty six minutes later, at its cruising altitude of, an explosion caused UTA Flight 772 to break up over the Sahara Desert near the towns of Bilma and Ténéré in Niger.

This division was responsible for the legendary beating back of the Biafran Army from the midwestern region, as well as crossing the River Niger and linking up with the 1st Division, which was marching down from Nsukka and Enugu.

As President of Niger, Tandja had to give up his position as President of the MNSD.

Gaddafi dreamed of forming a Saharan regiment, made up of the best young Tuareg fighters, to further his territorial ambitions in Chad, Niger, and elsewhere.

* HMS Niger was a 38-gun fifth rate, launched in 1813 and broken up in 1820.

On December 30, 20 non-governmental organizations and unions, including the Democratic Confederation of Workers of Niger ( CDTN ), formed the United Front for the Safeguarding of Democratic Gains ( FUSAD ) in opposition to the extension proposal, and they called on Tandja — who had up to that point expressed no opinion on the matter in public — to speak out against the proposal.

On 25 May 2009, the Constitutional Court, made up of appointed judges, released a ruling that any referendum to create a new constitution would be unconstitutional, and further would be a violation of the oath the president had taken on the Qur ' an ( a serious matter in Niger, which is overwhelmingly Muslim ).

To back up its claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, that administration referred to intelligence from Italy, Britain, and France detailing interactions between Saddam Hussein and the governments of Niger, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Instead of waiting for Barth to return, on 19 July, Vogel joined a steamboat expedition heading up the Niger and Benue Rivers to the Mandara Mountains where he was imprisoned by the king of Mora who had received a message about the suspicious stranger from Bornu.

Laird went up the Niger to the confluence of the Benue ( then called the Shary or Tchadda ), which he was the first white man to ascend.

In 1854, he set up, with the support of the British government, a small steamer, the Pleiad, which under W. B. Baikie made so successful a voyage that Laird induced the government to sign contracts for annual trading trips by steamers specially built for navigation of the Niger and Benue.

Various stations were founded on the Niger, and though government support was withdrawn after the death of Laird and Baikie, British traders continued to frequent the river, which Laird had opened up with little or no personal advantage.

In 1887 he travelled from Senegal up to the Niger River, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889.

Flint, William Wallace, E. Dangerfield and numerous other agents, over 400 political treaties drawn up by Goldie were made with the chiefs of the lower Niger and the Hausa states.