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Chalons, Battle of

Years: 274 - 274

The Battle of Châlons is fought in 274 between Roman Emperor Aurelian and Emperor Tetricus I of the Gallic Empire.

Fought in what is now Châlons-en-Champagne, France, it is the battle that marks the end of the independent Gallic Empire, and its unification back to the Roman Empire, after thirteen years of separation.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)