Template:Roman-Persian Wars timeline infobox

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Roman-Persian Wars Timeline
	Roman-Parthian Wars
69 BC	First Roman-Parthian contacts, when Lucullus invaded Southern Armenia.
66-65 BC	Dispute between Pompey and Phraates III over Euphrates boundary
53 BC	Roman defeat at the Battle of Carrhae
42-37 BC	A great Parthian invasion of Syria, and other Roman territories was decisively defeated by Marc Antony and Ventidius
36 BC	Unsuccessful campaign of Marc Antony against Parthia.
33 BC	Antony's campaign Armenia and subsequent withdrawal — the whole region passed under Parthian control.
36 AD	Defeated by the Romans, Artabanus II renunciated his claims to Armenia.
58-63 AD	Roman invasion of Armenia — arrangement with the Parthians over the kingship of Armenia.
114-117 AD	Major campaign of Trajan against Parthia — Trajan's conquests later abandoned by Hadrian.
161-165 AD	War over Armenia (161-163) ended by a Roman victory after initial Parthian successes Avidius Cassius sacked Ctesiphon in 165 AD.
195 - 197 AD	An offensive under the emperor Septimius Severus led to the Roman acquisition of northern Mesopotamia.
216 - 217 AD	Caracalla launched a new war against the Parthians — His successor Macrinus was defeated by the Parthians near Nisibis.
	Roman-Sassanid Wars
230-232 AD	Ardashir I raided Mesopotamia and Syria, but was finally repulsed by Alexander Severus.
238-244 AD	Ardashir's invasion of Mesopotamia, and Persian defeat at the Battle of Resaena. Gordian III advanced down the Euphrates but was repelled near Ctesiphon at the Battle of Misiche in 244.
253 AD	Roman defeat at the Battle of Barbalissos.
c. 258-260 AD	Shapur I defeated and captured Valerian I at Edessa.
283 AD	Carus sacked Ctesiphon.
296-298 AD	Roman defeat at Carrhae in 296 or 297. In 298 Galerius defeated the Persians.
363 AD	After an initial victory at the Ctesiphon, Julian was killed at the Battle of Samarra.
384 AD	Shapur III and Theodosius I divided Armenia between the two states.
421-422 AD	Roman reaction to Bahram's persecution of christian Persians.
440 AD	Yazdegerd II raided Roman Armenia.
502-506 AD	Anastasian War: It broke when Anastasius I refused to support financially the Persians, and ended with a 7-year peace-treaty.
526-532 AD	Iberian War: Roman victories at Dara and Satala, and defeat at the Battle of Callinicum — end of the war with the "Treaty of Eternal Peace".
540-561 AD	Lazic War: It broke when the Persians broke the "Treaty of Eternal Peace" invading Syria — end of the war in 561 with the signing of a 50-year peace.
572-591 AD	War for the Caucasus: It broke when the Armenians revolted against Sassanid rule. In 589 the Persian general Bahram Chobin raised a rebellion against Hormizd IV. Restoration of Khosrau II, Hormizd's son, to power by Roman and Persian forces — Restoration of Roman rule in Dara, Martyropolis, Iberia and Armenia.
602 AD	After Maurice's assassination, Khosrau II conquered Mesopotamia.
611-623 AD	The Persians conquered Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Rhodes, and entered Anatolia.
26 AD	Unsuccessful Avar-Persian siege of Constantinople
627 AD	Persian defeat at Nineveh.
629 AD	Heraclius restored the True Cross to Jerusalem, after the Persians agreed to withdraw from all occupied territories.