{"slug": "marcomanni", "label": "Marcomanni", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcomanni", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209851", "qid": "Q209851", "description": "historical Germanic group", "entries": 18, "years": 18, "span": [-8, 299], "span_label": ["9 BCE", "299 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "marcus-aurelius", "label": "Marcus Aurelius", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "pannonia", "label": "Pannonia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "carnuntum", "label": "Carnuntum", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "germanic-peoples", "label": "Germanic peoples", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "augustus", "label": "Augustus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aquileia", "label": "Aquileia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-army", "label": "Roman army", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "quadi", "label": "Quadi", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bohemia", "label": "Bohemia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -8, "year_label": "9 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Nero Claudius Drusus, Emperor Augustus' stepson, begins a campaign against the Marcomanni, but dies soon after, due to a fall from his horse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371257874#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s BC", "revid": 1371257874, "section": "Events › 9 BC › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": -7, "year_label": "8 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Maroboduus becomes ruler of the Marcomanni and fights against the Roman Empire's expansion in Bohemia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371257874#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s BC", "revid": 1371257874, "section": "Events › 8 BC › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 6, "year_label": "6 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "AD 6 – Tiberius makes Carnuntum his base of operations against Maroboduus; The Roman legion XX Valeria Victrix fight with Tiberius against the Marcomanni.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 19, "year_label": "19 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is deposed by Catualda. This ends the threat to the Romans from Germanic tribes until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Rome places them under its protection.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371078816#Roman_Empire", "title": "10s", "revid": 1371078816, "section": "Events › 19 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 37, "year_label": "37 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni (b. c. 30 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#37_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Deaths › 37 AD"}}, {"year": 92, "year_label": "92 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In spring, several tribes (probably Marcomanni, Quadi, Jazyges) cross the Danube and attack Pannonia, probably destroying Legio XXI Rapax. These tribes are defeated from May to December 92, and chased back over the river. The Romans do not pursue the retreating tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330324122#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 92", "revid": 1330324122, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 140, "year_label": "140 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ballomar, leader of the Marcomanni (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187415#Births", "title": "AD 140", "revid": 1371187415, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 166, "year_label": "166 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Conflict erupts on the Danube frontier between Rome and the Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302266#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 166", "revid": 1371302266, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 167, "year_label": "167 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Marcomanni tribe wages war against the Romans at Aquileia. They destroy aqueducts and irrigation conduits. Marcus Aurelius repels the invaders, ending the Pax Romana (Roman Peace) that has kept the Roman Empire free of conflict since the days of Emperor Augustus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302510#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 167", "revid": 1371302510, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 168, "year_label": "168 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman army crosses the Alps into Pannonia, and subdues the Marcomanni at Carnuntum, north of the Danube.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302660#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 168", "revid": 1371302660, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 170, "year_label": "170 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Suebian tribes of the Marcomanni cross the Danube and invade Northern Italy. The Roman army (20,000 men) is destroyed near Carnuntum in Pannonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371303023#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 170", "revid": 1371303023, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 171, "year_label": "171 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Marcus Aurelius forms a new military command, the praetentura Italiae et Alpium. Aquileia is relieved, and the Marcomanni are evicted from Roman territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371303100#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 171", "revid": 1371303100, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 172, "year_label": "172 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Marcus Aurelius crosses the Danube with an expeditionary force. He subdues the Marcomanni and their allies and then, in a pact signed with the Germanic tribes, he imports them into the Roman Empire to occupy areas that have been depopulated by the plague.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371303180#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 172", "revid": 1371303180, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 177, "year_label": "177 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Second Marcomannic War: Marcus Aurelius and Commodus begin war against the Quadi and the Marcomanni.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371305288#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 177", "revid": 1371305288, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 178, "year_label": "178 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus arrive at Carnuntum in Pannonia, and travel to the Danube to fight against the Marcomanni.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371305397#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 178", "revid": 1371305397, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 179, "year_label": "179 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Marcus Aurelius drives the Marcomanni over the Danube and reinforces the border. To repopulate and rebuild a devastated Pannonia, Rome allows the first German colonists to enter territory controlled by the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371305494#Roman_empire", "title": "AD 179", "revid": 1371305494, "section": "Events › By place › Roman empire"}}, {"year": 254, "year_label": "254 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman Empire is threatened by several peoples on their borders: the Germanic confederations, such as the Franks on the Middle Rhine, the Alemanni on the upper Rhine and Danube, and the Marcomanni facing the provinces at Noricum and Raetia. On land the confederation of Goths threaten the lower Danube provinces, and on the sea they threaten the shores of Thracia, Bithynia et Pontus, and Cappadocia. In the eastern provinces, the Sassanid Persians had the previous year defeated a Roman field army at Barballisos, and afterwards plundered the defenseless provinces. This period of time is called today the Crisis of the Third Century.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331344036#Roman_Empire", "title": "254", "revid": 1331344036, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 299, "year_label": "299 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In this or the following year, Galerius campaigns with success against Sarmatians and the Marcomanni, attacking through a swamp to defeat a Sarmatian army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267078871#Roman_Empire", "title": "299", "revid": 1267078871, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}