Events Tagged: "Africa"

Battle of Zama - Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal in Africa, Second Punic War ends, Rome dominant in Mediterranean

Battle of Thapsus - Caesar defeats republicans in Africa, Cato commits suicide at Utica rather than live under Caesar

Scillitan Martyrs - first recorded martyrs of Africa, 12 Christians beheaded in Carthage for refusing to swear by emperor's genius

St. Victor I becomes fourteenth pope - first African pope, makes Latin official Church language, Easter controversy

Belisarius reconquers North Africa - destroys Vandal kingdom with 15,000 men