THE HISPANIC CONQUEST By valdezate 218 BCE Cneus and Publius Scipio land in Emporion (Ampurias) 209 BCE Scipio takes Carthago Nova 201 BCE End of the second Punic War 155 BCE The war against the Lusitani begins 154 BCE The war against the Celtiberians begins 138 BCE The war against the Lusitani ends 133 BCE Destruction of Numancia . The war against the Celtiberians ends 29 BCE The conquest of the resistant peoples of the north begins 27 BCE Octavius Augustus divides Hiapania into three provinces 19 BCE The conquest of the Peninsula ends