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c. 814 BCETraditional founding date for the Phoenician colony of Carthage by Tyre.
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539 BCEEtruscan & Carthaginian alliance expels the Greeks from Corsica.
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510 BCE - 509 BCEFirst treaty between Rome and Carthage.
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306 BCECarthage and Agathocles of Syracuse sign a peace treaty and divide Sicily between them.
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255 BCECarthage sues for peace during the First Punic War but the Roman consul Regulus' excessive demands are rejected.
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241 BCE - 238 BCEThe 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.
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146 BCEEnd of the Third Punic War. Carthage is destroyed and its lands become the Roman province Africa.