Legio X Fretensis		Updated	2016-11-30
Sources
1	Real-Encyclopädie article "Legio" by Emil Ritterling	p.1671-1678
2	Dabrowa, Edward: "Legio X Fretensis", p.317-325 in Yann Le Bohec & Catherine Wolff (Éd.), Les légions de Rome sous le Haut- Empire. Actes du Congrès de Lyon, 17-19 septembre 1998. Lyon, 2000
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Latest update	Based on Source §2; updates marked with grey background.
History	from 58 BC to 284 AD
Date	Action	Legionary HQ	Modern name	Province	Comment
41/40 BC	raised by Octavian				other legio X was with M.Antonius
36	Octavian's campaigns vs Sextus Pompeius				battle of Naulochus
36	probably gained its title from battle in straight of Messina				Fretensis = of the straight
31	possibly fought for Octavian at battle of Actium				because of emblem of a dolphin
c.30	probably stationed in Macedonia			Macedonia
c.16	confirmed in Macedonia			Macedonia
by 4	in the East			Syria
by 18 AD	stationed at	Cyrrhus	ruins at Khoros	Syria
18/66	stationed at	Zeugma (Seleucia)	Belkis, Turkey	Syria
55-60	Corbulo's Parthian campaigns (vexillation)
66	vexillation under Cestius Gallus vs 1st Jewish revolt
67-70	1st Jewish revolt			Judaea
70	stationed permanently in Judaea	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Judaea
72-73	siege of Masada
113-117	Trajan's Parthian war (vexillation)
132-135	2nd Jewish revolt
166-180	M.Aurelius' Marcomannic wars (vexillation)
193-194	Pescennius Niger's civil war against Septimius Severus
211/217	titled Antoniniana after Caracalla
216	Caracalla's Parthian campaign (vexillation)
222/235	titled Severiana after Alexander Severus
235	? Severus Alexander's German campaign (vexillation)
238/244	titled Gordiana after Gordian III
260	? Valerian's campaign against the Persians
260s	vexillation sent by Gallienus to Gaul vs the usurpers
269	supported usurper Victorinus in Gaul (vexillation)				called Pia Felix after usurper's Pius Felix
284	probably still at Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Judaea
late 3rd cent.	moved to Arabia	Aila	Aqaba on Red Sea	Arabia