Events Tagged: "Alps"

Hannibal crosses Alps - leads 40,000 men and 37 elephants over Alps in winter, arrives in Italy with half his force

Alpine regions conquered - Raetia and Noricum annexed, Alps fully under Roman control

Death of Charles the Bald - dies crossing Alps, son Louis the Stammerer inherits weakened West Francia

Conrad Gesner catalogs Alpine dragons - Swiss naturalist describes various dragon species in the Alps with witness accounts (Historia Animalium)