Carthaginian Government Timeline

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c. 814 BCE
Traditional founding date for the Phoenician colony of Carthage by Tyre.
539 BCE
Etruscan & Carthaginian alliance expels the Greeks from Corsica.
510 BCE - 509 BCE
First treaty between Rome and Carthage.
306 BCE
Carthage and Agathocles of Syracuse sign a peace treaty and divide Sicily between them.
255 BCE
Carthage sues for peace during the First Punic War but the Roman consul Regulus' excessive demands are rejected.
241 BCE - 238 BCE
The rebellion of the mercenaries: Unpaid mercenaries under the leadership of Mathos and Spendios rebel against Carthage. Despite a peace treaty, Rome seizes the opportunity to strip Carthage of Sardinia and Corsica.
146 BCE
End of the Third Punic War. Carthage is destroyed and its lands become the Roman province Africa.