Chronology

Hannibal's campaign against Vaccaei worries Romans. Construction of the Via Flaminia, which improved transportation from Rome to northern Italy and Illyria. 

Hannibal leads army across Alps into Italy. Romans defeated at Ticinus and Trebia. Carthaginian fleet raids Italy. 

Roman army destroyed at Trasimene. Fabius Maximus elected dictator. Gnaeus and Publius Scipio win victories in Hispania. Hannibal nearly destroys the army of Minucius Rufus at Gerontium. Hannibal eludes Fabius in the Ager Falernus. Servilius raids Africa. 

Hannibal's repeated attempts to take Nola are repulsed (215–214). He captures Casilinum. Bomilcar lands Carthaginian reinforcements in southern Italy. Gnaeus and Publius Scipio defeat Hasdrubal in Hispania. Otacilius raids Africa. A Carthaginian invasion of Sicily is thwarted by an outbreak of plague. Hannibal forges an alliance with Philip V of Macedon (First Macedonian War). Romans raid Carthaginian territory in Hispania. 

Romans recapture Casilinum. Hannibal fails to capture Tarentum. An army under his lieutenant Hanno destroyed at Beneventum. Syracuse defects to Carthage.

Hannibal captures Tarentum and other cities in southern Italy. Roman army defeated at Silarus. Romans under Marcellus capture Syracuse. Capua besieged by Romans. Major battles at Lucania and Herdonea in Italy. 

Hannibal advances on Rome but is unable to capture city. Capua falls to Romans.  In Hispania, Hasdrubal routs the armies of Gnaeus and Publius Scipio in the battles of the Upper Baetis. Major battles at Volturnus and Anio in Italy. Rome forges alliance with Aetolian League in Greece.   

Roman army destroyed at Herdonea. Scipio Africanus, aged 25, appointed leader of Roman forces in Hispania. Battles of Numistro and Venusia in Italy. Roman completes re-conquest of Sicily. Rome resumes raids in Africa. 

Twelve Latin cities refuse to supply troops to Rome. Fabius recaptures Tarentum. Battle of Canusium. Scipio captures New Carthage. Philip defeats Aetolians at Lamia. Carthaginian fleet operates in Greek waters.  

Consuls Claudius Marcellus and Quinctius Crispinus ambushed and killed. Scipio defeats Hasdrubal at Baecula. Hasdrubal moves into Italy. Romans begin raiding African coast. Carthaginian fleet abandons Greece; another fleet defeated off Africa. 

Romans capture Locri. Philip V of Macedon negotiates a separate peace with Rome (Peace of Phoenike). Mago campaigns in northern Italy. Scipio elected consul. 

Mago defeated in northern Italy; dies on route to Carthage. Carthaginians defeated at Great Plains in Africa. After Battle of Croton, Carthage sues for peace and Hannibal is recalled to Africa.  

Hannibal elected to head Carthaginian government.

Romans defeat Antiochus at Thermopylae and Magnesia. Hannibal defeated in the Battle of Eurymedon. Hannibal flees to the court of King Prusias of Bithynia. 

Hannibal commits suicide in Bithynia. Death of Scipio Africanus.