A major raid by the Chatti into Germania Superior was defeated decisively by the legions in 50 AD.

Rübekeil suggests that Lugus was a triune god, comprising Esus, Toutatis and Taranis, the three chief deities mentioned by Lucan ( who, at the same time, makes no mention of Lugus ), and that pre-Proto-Germanic tribes in contact with the Celts ( possibly the Chatti ) moulded aspects of Lugus into the Germanic god Wōdanaz.

The confederacy of the Franks came into being for certain in the early 3rd century among the tribes of the right bank of the Rhine: the Sicambri, Chamavi, Bructeri, Chatti, Chattuarii, Ampsivarii, Tencteri and Ubii.

The Chatti must have been overconfident to send such small numbers into Alsace, which was tenanted by both Celtic and Germanic tribes loyal to Rome and was protected by bases at Mainz and Worms.

On 1 January 89, the governor of Germania Superior, Lucius Antonius Saturninus, and his two legions at Mainz, Legio XIV Gemina and Legio XXI Rapax, revolted against the Roman Empire with the aid of the Chatti.

* Roman emperor Domitian fights the Chatti, a Germanic tribe.

But in secret he forged an alliance of Germanic tribes that had traditionally been enemies ( the Cherusci, Marsi, Chatti, Bructeri, Chauci, Sicambri, and remaining elements of the Suebi, who had been defeated by Caesar in the Battle of Vosges ), but whom he was able to unite due to outrage over Varus ' tyrannous insolence and wanton cruelty to the conquered and who had hitherto submitted in sullen hatred to the Roman dominion.

The city's name is derived from the ancient Castellum Cattorum, a castle of the Chatti, a German tribe that had lived in the area since Roman times.

The Roman empire under Hadrian ( ruled 117 – 138 ), showing the location of the Chatti in central Germany.

Roman sources identify the fabled Mattium, beyond the Eder, as the capital of the Chatti.

In 9, in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, an army of allied Germanic tribes under the command of Arminius ( the Cherusci, Bructeri, Marsi, Sicambri, Chauci and Chatti ) annihilated three Roman legions commanded by Varus.

Legio I Minervia ( Latin for " First legion Minervia ", " devoted to goddess Minerva ") was a Roman legion levied by emperor Domitian in 82, for the campaign against the Germanic tribe of the Chatti.

The Batavians were a sub-tribe of the Germanic Chatti tribal group who had migrated to the region between the Old Rhine and Waal rivers ( still today called the Betuwe after them ) in what became the Roman province of Germania Inferior ( S Netherlands / Nordrhein ).

It consists of the ancient Germanic tribal name of the Chatti and Melibokus, the Roman name of any mountains like the Harz or the Teutoburg Forest.

They formed an alliance with the Cherusci, the Marsi, the Chatti, Sicambri, and the Chauci, under the leadership of Arminius, that defeated the Roman General Varus and annihilated his three legions at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.

It was first mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus as the Adrana in the territory of the Chatti.

Lands to the south of there, now among the most urban of the lowlands, were at that time mainly delta lands: marsh and islands, except for the large island of Batavia, populated by a branch of the Chatti ( who had taken it away from the Celts ) and held in subjection by a Roman city at Noviomagus ( Nijmegen ).

* 12 – 9 BCE, Invasions of Drusus I up the Elbe from the North Sea, the Lippe and Main, Battle of the Lupia River, Cherusci and Sicambri subdued, Chatti, Tencteri and Usipetes are overrun, Establishment of new forts by Rome, Arminius and Flavus sent to Rome, Death of Roman General Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

* 14 – 16, Roman retaliation against Cherusci, Chatti, Bructeri and Marsi, Capture of Arminius ' wife.

* 50, Raid against the Chatti under Emperor Claudius, Liberation of Roman prisoners.

The Roman commander, Lucius Pomponius ( Secundus ) used cavalry from the Vangiones and the Nemetes as well as regular Roman cavalry to attack the sleeping Chatti in their open camps by night.

Enraged by this and other similar bloodbaths ( e. g., in the spring of 15 among the Chatti ), the frequently quarrelling tribes united once again to fend back the Roman invaders.

Thus, it is no surprise that the mountain pass beside the Saalburg was first fortified by Roman troops during Domitian's wars against the Chatti ( AD 81-96 ), when two simple earthen enclosures were erected ( Schanzen A and B, located between the restored fort and the modern road ).

Also, Caracalla perhaps felt more comfortable about campaigning in the upper Main because he was not declaring war on any specific historic tribe, such as the Chatti or Cherusci, against whom Rome had suffered grievous losses.

There was threat of war on other frontiers as well — in Britain, and in Raetia and Upper Germany, where the Chatti of the Taunus mountains had recently crossed over the limes.

Domitian went to war against the Chatti in 83-85, who were north of Frankfurt ( in Hesse named after them ).

A preventative war under Caracalla, who marched against the Alamanni and their Chatti allies from Raetia and Mogontiacum in AD 213, lowered the Germanic pressure on the border only temporarily.

It says that after the death of Sunno, his brother Marcomer, leader of the Ampsivarii and Chatti, proposed to the Franks that they should have one single king, contrary to their tradition.

Marcomer was seen as leader with Chatti and Ampsivarii but the two did not engage.

In 19, Adgandestrius, a chief of the Chatti, asked Rome for poison to kill Arminius.

In the year before the battle, 15 AD, Germanicus had marched against the Chatti and then against the Cherusci under Arminius.

The 3rd century saw the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes: Alamanni, Franks, Bavarii, Chatti, Saxons, Frisii, Sicambri, and Thuringii.

* 17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero ; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.

* May 26 – Germanicus returns to Rome as conquering hero, he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.

While Julius Caesar was well informed about the regions and tribes on the eastern banks of the Rhine, he never mentions the Chatti.

The first ancient writer to do so is Strabo, some time after 16 AD, who includes the Chatti in a listing of " poorer Germanic tribes " that had previously fought the Romans.

In 723, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid — subsequently called St. Boniface, Apostle of the Germans — proselytizing among the Chatti, felled their sacred tree, Thor's Oak, near Fritzlar, as part of his efforts to compel the conversion of the Chatti and the other northern Germanic tribes to Christianity.

During Tacitus ' era they included lesser-known tribes such as the Tencteri, Cherusci, Hermunduri and Chatti ; however, a period of federation and intermarriage resulted in the familiar groups known as the Alemanni, Franks, Saxons, Frisians and Thuringians.

They are mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography and in Tacitus ' Germania ( chapter 32 ), where they are described as one of the neighbouring tribes to the Chatti and the Tencteri during the 1st century AD.

The settlement appears to have been abandoned by the Romans after the devastating Battle of the Teutoburg Forest failed in the year 9 AD. The Chatti were also involved in the Revolt of the Batavi in the year 69 AD.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

For the first century AD, we are quite well informed about the Chatti, mostly thanks to Tacitus, who provides important information about the Chatti's part in the Germanic wars and certain elements of their culture.

After the early 3rd century AD, however, the Chatti virtually disappear from the sources and are only called upon as a topical element or when writing about events of the 1st century.

In 15, after a quick raid on the Chatti, invaded the lands of the Marsi in 14 AD with 12, 000 legionnaires, 26 cohorts of auxiliaries and eight cavalry squadrons.

His Annales contains brief mention of the Vangiones in connection with capturing bands of plunderers from the Chatti across the Rhine to the north ( Hesse ) in AD 50.

In 16 AD, Germanicus sent Silius against the Chatti with 30, 000 infantry and 3, 000 cavalry, defeating them in the process., after which Tiberius appointed him as a taxation auditor in Gaul.