The First Punic War, a twenty-year conflict…
249 BCE to 238 BCE
The First Punic War, a twenty-year conflict between Carthage and the Roman Republic, waged in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily, Sardinia, and North Africa, ends in 241 BCE in a Roman victory.
Sicily, except for the Greek Kingdom of Syracuse, becomes a Roman province.
An uprising of mercenary armies formerly employed by Carthage, backed by Libyan settlements revolting against Carthaginian control, begins the following year.
