Timeline
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c. 260 BCETimaeos is the first to use the term 'Celtiberian' when refering to Celts living in Iberia.
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c. 217 BCE - 218 BCE30,000 Celtic infantry and 4,000 Celtic cavalry join Hannibal. Celts constitute just over 50% of his army in Italy.
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137 BCE4,000 Celtiberians trap a force of 20,000 Romans at Numantia forcing their surrender.
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133 BCENumantia falls to the Romans who besiege the oppidum. Mass suicide ensues among many of the survivors. Land reforms by Tiberius Gracchus.