Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 250 B.C. through 201 B.C.
- -250 to -201
- Ivasion of Britain by La Tene, Iron-Age people (c. -250)
- Ptolemy III Euergetes, king of Egypt (-247 to -221)
- Hannibal, Carthaginian general, b. -246 (d. -182)
- Antiochus II Theos killed by his wife -246; succeeded by his son
Seleucus II Callinicus
- Agis IV, king of Sparta, put to death -241 for attempting agrarian
reform and trying to reintroduce the Lycurgan constitution
- Carthage begins conquest of Spain -238
- Sardinia becomes part of Roman republic -238
- Outbreak of war between Sparta and Achaean League -236
- Marcus Portius Cato the Elder, Roman politician, b. -234 (d. -149)
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Roman politician and general,
b. -233 (d. -183)
- The first Roman ambassadors in Athens and Corinth -228
- The Gauls defeated near Telamon in Etruria -225
- Rome conquers northern Italy, including Mediolanum (Milan),
in -222
- Antigonus III Doson of Macedonia takes possession of Sparta -222
- Ch'in dynasty in China (-221 to -206)
- Cleomenes, king of Sparta, flees to Egypt -221 (d. -220)
- Second Punic War (-219 to -201)
- Hannibal crosses the Alps (Little St. Bernard Pass), invades
Italy from the north, takes Turin, and defeats Publius
Cornelius Scipio at Ticinus River -218; defeats Romans at
Lake Trasimene -217
- Rome appoints Quintus Fabius Maximus dictator -217
- Romans defeated at Cannae, with c. 50,000 killed -216
- Philip V of Macedon makes alliance with Hannibal -216
- Roman armies in Spain under Publius Cornelius and
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio -215; defeated -211
- Romans under Marcus Claudius Marcellus conquer and sack
Syracuse; Archimedes killed during fighting -212
- "Hannibal ante portas!" The Carthaginians before Rome -211
- After the defeat of his brother Hasdrubal on the Metaurus,
Hannibal retires to southern Italy -207
- Scipio Africanus decisively defeats Hannibal at Zama -202;
end of Second Punic War -201
- Antiochus III, ruler of Persia at the peak of his power -209
- Shi Huang-ti, emperor of China since -221, d. -209
- Liu Pang assumes the imperial title in China (-202)
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