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Lugdunum

1st-2nd Celtic village; Hellanised over the last century.
Refuge of Romans driven out of Vienne.
58 Julius Caesar campaigned against the Helvetii from Lugdunum.
43 Colony of Lugdunum officially founded as Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum.
27 Augustus divided Gallia Comata into three provinces.
12 Shrine consecrated to the divinity of Rome and Augustus by Drusus.
10 Future Emperor Claudius born there.
CE
39 Antipas exiled to Lyons; Herodias follows him into exile.
65 Lyons destroyed by fire; rebuilt.
177 A persecution, begun by a mob, arose under Marcus Aurelius.
198 Sacked in a civil war; territory taken by cities to the south.
269 Lyons plundered again.
4th cen. Another civil war results in aqueducts destroyed.
430 Sidonius Apollinaris born in Lyons.
c.460 Capital of indom of Burgundians.
c.534 Taken in the Frankish conquest.

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