RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA                                                          

                                                                                                                                          3rd Century B.C.   

300 BC Due to the ongoing consistent Celtic Çulture of individual Sept's independence, any chance that they had of becoming a cohesive Tuatha / Family Region was to be in decline, as further emerging individual Peoples also began to seek out new territories with the Helvetii Septs in Switzerland, the Boii Septs in Italy, the Averni Septs in France, the Scordisci Septs in Serbia, while the Belgae Septs who were in Northern Gaul would eventually be also in Southern Briton.

295 BC A particular group of Celtic Septs this year formed an alliance with the Etruscans against the regional expansion of the Romans, but were to be defeated at Sentinum.

283 BC The Celtic Septs in Gaul (France and Part of Spain) and the Etruscans were also to combine their forces and confront the Romans who now ruled Northern Italy, but they too were to be defeated by the Romans at Lake Vadimo / Vadimonian.

280 BC The Gauls / Galatian Septs invaded Greece south to Delphi and also settled in Turkey.

279 BC The Celts who were now known as the Galatae, especially to the Greeks, were also known as the Galli and the Celtae to the Romans, while those living north of the Danube River had previously besieged Thrace and Macedonia, but now under Brennus they were to kill the King of Macedonia who had been the heir apparent due to the previous exploits of Alexander the Great and Philip, and with the Macedonian Empire gone and the Greeks divided, Brennus and his Celtic followers were to then head south along the coast gaining Thermopylae. The Celts were also able to take over Delphi this year, while Gaul remained entirely under their control, and although the Romans were to make further advances through Gaul the Celts grew even stronger in Briton gaining increased knowledge from the Druids who were already set up there. 

278 BC Gaulish mercenaries were by now also in the service of the Greeks in Egypt.

274 BC Celtic mercenaries were now more widely made use of elsewhere.

273 BC The Galatae under Bolgios and Brennus finally arrived into Macedonia in mid - Winter with their families and possessions, seeking to settle, and this meant that they now clashed with their previous allies the Greeks, and those under Brennus attacked Delphi and were defeated and Brennus was badly being wounded and now also despondent took his own life. Menwhile the Celts in the Balkans were to remain for some time longer, and 2 of the Celtic Septs now split off from those who had invaded Macedonia, and went south - east to the Dardanelles and from there onto Asia Minor to settle. They were to be discovered there later on by their third Sept, the Celtic Tectosages, who had also left Greece after the defeat at Delphi and eventually settled into North Phrygia / Galati where their stronghold was to be at Drunemeton, and the Celtic Tectosages were to then eventually settle into Ankara in Turkey. These particular Celtic Galatians were to be cut off for many Centuries from those Celts in Europe, and later on St. Jerome in the 4th Century AD was to say that beside speaking Greek, they also spoke a similar language to the Celtic Treveri Septs who were in Gaul in the district of Trier on the Moselle River. As the Celts generally began to disseminate further as an aristocratic warrior people many more also became mercenaries, and Ireland, Gaul (France and Part of Spain), the Scottish Highlands / Alba and Briton / Albion were to become their last bastions as both Gaul and Briton would eventually come under Roman domination, while the Scottish Highlands would only be effected around the outer edges. Despite this Ireland would remain free of any Roman interference altogether, leaving a lasting Celtic People and Celtic Culture  there, until the coming of the marauding Teutonic Scandinavian Vikings in the 8th Century AD at first, and then the Teutonic Scandinavian Anglo - Norman English in the 12th Century AD with their following oppression and repression for 850 years, whose only main purpose during that time was always to gain as much land as possible by,  "Doing away with all things Irish."   

      Septs from the Celtic La Tene culture were also in Albion / Briton on the south - coast, and although in small numbers, although they were still Celtic Famiy branches / Septs. Also known now as Iron Age B the Marnians were from the River Marne along with craftsmen in metal who had Chiefs from the Middle Rhine, formed into over - lordships in the areas that they now occupied, while in the north they settled in the Yorkshire Wolds, and as far as south - western Scotland, and promoted a La Tene type of art, and a predominant position that may have consolidated the Celtic character of the Albion population south to the Cheviots. Settlers who were in the south - west from the Bristol Channel region, as a result of Cornish trade, were also of a La Tene culture, settling in there from 300 BC - 200 BC and later on during the purging by Julius Caesar the Roman Emperor another stream of refugees came into the area there. There was also a final phase before the Roman Conquests really began, with Belgic settlements in the south - east who came from the territory between the River Rhine, the River Seine and the River Marne, while others along the seacoast were from provincial Urnfield - Hallstatt origins from across the River Rhine, with other Celts from the La Tene population of Champagne, which made up most of the migration to Albion / Briton had previously also resisted the Romans, who were now in their own individual kingdoms, and later still when they were also dispossessed, in the west and the north. This meant that some aristocratic warrior Belgae genealogy was to survive in Wales / Cymru during the Roman occupation, that would be revived by the Britons in Medieval Times, and although the first coins to be issued by the Celts were to end later in Gaul also under Julius Caesar, and in Briton under Claudius, there were no such native coins used in either Ireland, Alba / Scottish Highlands, and some other parts of Briton as in Ireland the legal tender was to be in the form of cattle, with 6 heifers or 3 milch cows being equivalent to a cumal used for a single female slave, or used to purchase chariots etc.

     Long Celtic shields were now in common use, while at Telamon the Celtic Gaesatae (spearmen) who had been brought from beyond the Alps to assist the other Celtic Septs in Northern Italy, who also only fought naked while carrying their weapons, which seemed to be archaic, was actually a ritual utilised by the Celts for their magical protection as their spears had a broad blade known as a laigen, and their heavy spear was known as a gae, their lighter spear a sleg, who with 3 riders who were known as trimarcisia who were composed of a Celtic aristocratic warrior and his 2 attendants who would supply him with fresh horses and also act in his defence.

266 BC The Romans were to gain overall control over Italy where the Umbrians / Umbri  were an ancient people in Italy, that included the Ausones, the Siculi, and the Sabini, who were to later migrate to Gaul (France and Part of Spain). 

241 BC The Romans were to win the "first Punic War" and also gain Sicily, which became their "first" Province, while Carthage and Rome were now also in conflict along the Mediterranean coast over ports in Spain.

237 BC Carthage began their conquest of Spain, and by the 2nd Punic War they would control most of Spain where they were supported by Celtiberian warriors, except in the north - west, where some of the Celtiberians were against the Carthaginians becoming the overlords of their territories there in Spain and because of this they would eventually come to welcome the Roman intervention in Spain and would then combine with the Romans against the Punic invaders, but in the future they would come to regret this alliance.  

230 BC Before this time Attalos / Attalus 1st of Pergamon / Pergamum was to defeat the Galatae / Galatians of Asia Minor.

225 BC The Celtic Insubres and the Celtic Boii Septs who had settled in Northern Italy wore bracae / breeches or light cloaks with breeches, which was previously normal wear for the Scythians, the Cimmerians and the Thracians who were both the precursors of the Scythians on the fringes of Europe, while both sexes of the Celtic Irish aristocratic warriors wore 2 garments, the tunic / leine or a sheet made of linen that was worn to the knee by men, and to the ankles by women, gathered around the waist by a girdle / criss with a woollen cloak worn over this, which had no hood or sleeves and was held in position by a brooch. The most characteristic ornament was a neck - ring / torc of gold or bronze with some made of silver, which were from the La Tene 500 BC period, and the Romans were to note that the Celtic women were like the men in stature and just as equal in courage, as due to their aristocratic warrior classes they were always in the forefront of battle, instead of their subject peoples. Being aristocratic warriors was to have a great influence eventually on the genealogical composition of the Celts in more modern times up to the 12th Century AD numerically as to the future genetic traits in the remaining Irish population when the Anglo - Norman English Invasion then was to also bring Irish ethnic and Catholic religious oppression on the Celtic aristocratric warrior class that would then continue on for at least 850 years, 

225 / 222 BC The Romans completely defeated the Celtic Cis - Alpine Gauls and the Celtic Gaesatae at Telamon, who were composed of a vast Gaulish army, including many Celtic warriors who had been brought in from beyond the Alps who were now also caught between the expanding Roman invading forces, while the Gaesatae who had migrated into Asia Minor had come from beyond the Alps also, and where noted for being always naked and in the forefront of the battle line, as they wore only gold torcs around their necks and gold armlets.

219 BC Hannibal of Carthage was able to capture Saguntum in Spain, while the Celts in Northern Italy were to rebel against their Roman overlords there, and it would now take the Romans 10 years to subdue them again.

206 BC / 208 BC Scipio Africanus the Roman leader was able to conquer Spain, but the Celtiberians there  would not enter into any type of submission to the Romans after finally seeing off the Carthaginians, and the ongoing battles between them were now to be never ending.

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