Dacia Timeline

The governor of the Roman province of Macedonia, M. Minucius Rufus, celebrates his victory over a raid of the Dacians allied with the Celtic tribe of the Scordiscii in the Balkans.

The reign of Burebistas, styled in a Greek inscription as "the first and the greatest king". He attacked and destroyed the Celtic tribes on the central Danube, and the Greek cities on the western coast Black Sea became his allies and clients.

Boii in eastern Europe crushed by the Dacians.

Burebistas sends Acornion of Dionysopolis as ambassador to negotiate an alliance with Pompey.

Burebistas is killed in the same year as his enemy Julius Caesar.

Dacians invade Moesia and defeat the Romans.

The Roman general Cornelius Fuscus invades Dacia. He is ambushed and his army is annihilated.

Reign of the last Dacian king, Decebalus.

Resolved to avenge Fuscus' defeat, Domitian sends another army to Dacia under Tettius Iulianus. This general is victorious on the mountainous pass of Tapae, in the south-west of modern Romania.

Trajan conquers Dacia.