Chronology of warfare between the Romans and Germanic peoples

Gallic Wars (58 BC – 57 BC) Clades Lolliana (16 BC) Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16) Marcomannic Wars (166–180) (participating Roman units) Roman campaigns in Germania during the 230s Gothic invasion of the Balkans (250–251) Gothic invasion of the Balkans (254) Gothic invasion of the Balkans (267–268) Roman–Alemannic Wars Gothic War (367–369) Gothic War (376–382) Visigothic Wars Vandalic Wars Anglo-Saxon Wars Vandalic War (533–534) Gothic War (535–554) This is a chronology of warfare between the Romans and various Germanic peoples.The nature of these wars varied through time between Roman conquest, Germanic uprisings, later Germanic invasions of the Western Roman Empire that started in the late second century BC, and more.The series of conflicts was one factor which led to the ultimate downfall of the Western Roman Empire in particular and ancient Rome in general in 476.Battles of Idistaviso and the Angrivarian Wall.254 267–269 Gothic War (323–332)Gothic War (367–369) Gothic War (376–382) Gothic War (401–403) Radagaisus' invasion Visigothic Wars Gothic War (535–554) For the timeline of events in Britannia after its abandonment by Emperor Valentinian III, see Timeline of conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain.
The Varus battle by Otto Albert Koch, 1909
The Defeat of the Cimbri by Alexandre Gabriel Décamps
Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar by Lionel Noel Royer , 1899
Campaigns of Tiberius and Germanicus in the years 10 / 11 - 13 CE. In pink the anti-Roman Germanic coalition led by Arminius. In dark green, territories still directly held by the Romans, in yellow the Roman client states
The area ( Agri Decumates ) between Main and Rhine was evacuated in 259 AD, dozens of Roman camps were abandoned.
The northern and eastern frontiers of the Roman Empire in the time of Constantine, with the territories acquired in the course of the thirty years of military campaigns between 306 and 337.
Empire of the Huns , pushing the Germanic tribes over the Limes into the Roman Empire.
Kingdom of the Vandals (yellow) and their allies the Sarmatian Alans before the invasion of Roman Africa , c. 418
During his four-year reign Majorian reconquered most of Hispania and southern Gaul, meanwhile reducing the Visigoths, Burgundians and Suevi to federate status.
Europe in the late fifth century (476–486).
Kingdom of the Visigoths (orange), Kingdom of the Suebi (green), Kingdom of the Burgundians , Kingdom of the Franks (purple), Kingdom of the Vandals (yellow), c. 490.
The Byzantine Empire at the end of Antiquity in 555 AD.
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