Utica Timeline

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c. 1101 BCE

Traditional founding date for the Phoenician colony of Utica by Sidon (or Tyre).
309 BCE - 308 BCE

Agathocles of Syracuse successfuly campaigns in North Africa defeating Carthaginian armies and taking Utica and Hippacra.
264 BCE - 241 BCE

First Punic War. Carthage cedes Sicily to Rome.
218 BCE - 202 BCE

Second Punic War.
204 BCE - 203 BCE

Scipio Africanus wins two battles and besieges Utica in North Africa.
149 BCE - 146 BCE

Third Punic War.
146 BCE

Utica is made the capital of the Roman province of Africa.