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733 BCECorinth founds the colony of Syracuse in Sicily.
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491 BCE - 478 BCEGelon is tyrant of Syracuse.
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480 BCETyrant of Syracuse Gelon defeats the Carthaginians at the battle of Himera.
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478 BCE - 467 BCEHiero I is tyrant of Syracuse.
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474 BCEAn Etruscan fleet is defeated by the navy of Syracuse at the Battle of Cumae.
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415 BCE - 413 BCEAthenian expedition to attack Syracuse.
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405 BCEDionysius becomes tyrant in Syracuse, Sicily.
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c. 398 BCE - c. 380 BCEPlato travels in Egypt, Cyrene, Italy, Syracuse and Sicily.
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397 BCEDionysius I of Syracuse employs wheeled seige towers and bolt throwers for the first time in Greek warfare at the seige of Motya.
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384 BCESyracuse attacks the ports of the Etruscan city of Cerveteri.
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367 BCEDionysius II becomes tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily.
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367 BCEPlato's second trip to Syracuse.
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361 BCEFinal attempt by Plato to make Syracusan king a philosopher-king.
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356 BCEDion becomes tyrant of Syracuse.
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346 BCEDionysius II is once again tyrant of Syracuse.
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344 BCECorcyra contributes two ships to Timoleon's fleet which attacked Syracuse.
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344 BCETimoleon defeats Dionysius II of Syracuse and establishes an oligarchy government.
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c. 330 BCEAgathocles is exiled from Syracuse.
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319 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse declares himself strategos auotkrator.
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317 BCEAgathocles takes power in Syracuse.
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311 BCEA Carthaginian army defeats Agathocles of Syracuse near Gela, Sicily.
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310 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse lands an army of 14,000 in North Africa.
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309 BCESyracuse defeats a Carthaginian army in Sicily and kills their general Hamilcar.
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309 BCE - 308 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse successfuly campaigns in North Africa defeating Carthaginian armies and taking Utica and Hippacra.
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307 BCESyracusan tyrant Agathocles sacks the city of Segesta.
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307 BCECarthage defeats the army of Agathocles of Syracuse led by Archagathus while Agathocles is in Sicily.
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306 BCEAgathocles declares himself king of Syracuse.
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306 BCECarthage and Agathocles of Syracuse sign a peace treaty and divide Sicily between them.
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300 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse campaigns in Italy and captures Bruttium.
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295 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse captures Croton in southern Italy.
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289 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse dies from poison or illness.
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288 BCEHicetus becomes tyrant of Syracuse.
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270 BCE - 215 BCEHiero II is tyrant of Syracuse.
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214 BCESyracuse joins the side of Carthage in the Second Punic War.
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213 BCE - 212 BCERoman commander Marcus Claudius Marcellus lays seige to and ultimately sacks Syracuse.
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211 BCEMarcus Claudius Marcellus is given a triumph for his capture of Syracuse and victories in Sicily.
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201 BCESyracuse joins the Roman Republic, province of Sicily is formed.