HISTORICAL EVENTS
 

   

Type of event

Town foundation

Notes

Probably in 175 B.C., the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus founds a centre that will be named Regium Lepidi after him.

 

 

Type of event

War

Notes

Between 187 and 181 B.C. the Romans lead a series of military campaigns against the Friniates Ligurians until the decision to deport the whole population.

 

 

Type of event

War against the Gauls and the Ligurians (II phase)

Notes

In 175 B.C. the consuls Publius Mutius Scaevola and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus put down definitively the Ligurian’s rebellion.

 

 

Type of event

Change of legal position

Notes

In 88 B.C., at the end of the Social War, Reggio Emilia obtains the status of municipium and is inscribed in the Pollia tribe.

 

 

Type of event

Civil war

Notes

In 78 B.C., after the death of Sulla, a group of noblemen rebel, but they are defeated by the generals who have remained loyal to the old dictator. Pompeius is one of them: he kills Marcus Junio Brutus, who has taken refuge in Reggio Emilia

 

 

Type of event

War of Modena

Notes

In 43 B.C. Reggio Emilia sides with Mark Antony during the War of Modena.