208 BC

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[edit] Events

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[edit] Rome

• Second Punic War:
  • Scipio Africanus Major defeats Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal Barca in Spain at the Battle of Baecula. As a result, Hasdrubal crosses the Pyrenees with his remaining troops into Transalpine Gaul, intending to join Hannibal in Italy.
  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus was killed in an ambush.

[edit] Asia

• Chinese general Zhang Han of the Qin Dynasty pacifies a peasant rebellion led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, then lays siege to the rebel city of Julu.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman general (b. 268 BC, died in ambush)
• Li Si, Chinese philosopher and politician (b. 280 BC, assassinated)