500 Expedition of Hanno and Himilco to colonise west African coast, and to explore the Atlantic. Britain discovered.
480 Expedition against Agrigentum and Syracuse in conjunction with Persian invasion of Greece. Battle of Himera. Hamilcar defeated with great loss by Gelo of Syracuse.
SECOND PERIOD (410-264 B.C.)
410 Renewal of attempts of Carthage to reduce Sicily. Hannibal, son of Gisco, storms Selinus. Agrigentum destroyed by Hannibal and Himilco. Death of Hannibal. Himilco attacks Gela.
405 Treaty between Carthage and Dionysius of Syracuse secures Carthaginian conquests in Sicily.
398 Dionysius attempts to expel Carthaginians from Sicily. In the ensuing war all Sicily falls before the Punic arms. Dionysius is besieged in Syracuse, but pestilence breaks out among the Carthaginians, and they are defeated. Himilco starves himself to death.
397 Libyans revolt against Carthage. The city has a narrow escape.
396-392 Mago leads an expedition against Syracuse, which is not successful.
380 Mago’s second Sicilian expedition defeated at Cabala. The whole of Sicily is nearly lost, but Mago’s victory at Corsica restores the Carthaginian power. The Halycus recognised as boundary to Carthaginian possessions in Sicily.