9 Event

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Arminius annihilates three of Varus's legions. Rome abandons the conquest of Germania and fixes its frontier on the Rhine and Danube.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 9 — the context national timelines leave out.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

What was written of it

Nations must serve as guides to one another, and all would be wrong to deprive themselves of the light they can lend each other.

Germaine de Staël 1813

On Germany

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