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Timeline of Messina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ28221708 ↗
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Messina, Sicily, Italy.

Prior to 18th century

730 BCE - Chalcidians take settlement from the Siculi; town renamed "Zancle".

671 BCE - Samians take Zancle.

397 BCE - Settlement sacked by Carthaginian forces in the Battle of Messene.

343 BCE - Carthaginians ousted by forces of Timoleon.

282 BCE - Mamertines take Messina (approximate date).

241 BCE - Messina becomes a civitas foederata.

35 BCE - Messina attacked by forces of Octavian.

520 CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Messina active (approximate date).

535 CE - Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire takes Sicily.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 105-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Timeline, Messina and timeline can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Timeline of Messina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.