85 CE - 86 CE: Dacians invade Moesia and defeat the Romans.

86 CE: The Roman general Cornelius Fuscus invades Dacia. He is ambushed and his army is annihilated.

87 CE - 106 CE: Reign of the last Dacian king, Decebalus.

88 CE: Resolved to avenge Fuscus' defeat, Domitian sends another army to Dacia under Tettius Iulianus. This general is victorious on the mountainous pass of Tapae, in the south-west of modern Romania.

101 CE - 106 CE: Trajan conquers Dacia.

113 CE: Trajan's column is constructed in Rome which commemorates the emperor's campaigns in Dacia.