Himera

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580 BC Lipara founded by Cnidians
425 BC (circa) Naval victory of the Liparaioi on the Tyrrhenoi.
397 BC Lipara conquered by the Carthaginians
304 BC Agathocles attacks Lipara and plunders the pritaneum.
288 BC Captured by the Carthaginians
260 BC Consul Caius Duilius defeats the Carthaginian fleet in front of Milazzo
       at the beginning of the First Punic War (264-241 BC).
252 BC Captured by the Romans
 90 BC (circa) Sacrificial ceremonies at Lipara, ordered by consul Titus Flaminius, 
       after a seaquake which has stroke the Eolian islands.