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2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae

  • 2nd August 2026
  • Tagged as: Battle of Cannae, Carthage, Elephant, Hannibal, Roman Empire

Hannibal’s army inflicted a devastating defeat on the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.

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7th November 1874: Elephant first appears as a symbol of the Republican Party in Thomas Nast’s political cartoon Third Term Panic

  • 7th November 2025
  • Tagged as: America, Art, Cartoon, Culture, Elephant, Grant, Politics, Republican Party, Satire, Thomas Nast, United States, USA

Third Term Panic became one of Thomas Nast’s most influential works, securing the elephant’s place in American political iconography and was later adopted by the Republican Party itself.

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4th January 1903: Topsy the elephant electrocuted at Luna Park in Coney Island, New York

  • 4th January 2024
  • Tagged as: Animal, Circus, Coney Island, Edison, Electricity, Electrocution, Elephant, Execution, Fairground, New York

After being fed carrots laced with potassium cyanide, she was subjected to 6,600 volts of AC electricity that brought her to the ground. At this point, steam winches pulled nooses tight around her neck.

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19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama

  • 19th October 2022
  • Tagged as: Carthage, Cavalry, Elephant, Hannibal, Mediterranean, Roman Empire, Rome, Scipio, Second Punic War

After seventeen years, the Second Punic War was finally brought to an end with the decisive victory of the Roman general and consul Scipio Africanus over Hannibal at the Battle of Zama.

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