213 BC

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Years:	216 BC 215 BC 214 BC 213 BC 212 BC 211 BC 210 BC

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Rome

• Second Punic War:
  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus begins the siege of Syracuse, which defenses were conducted skillfully by Hippocrates, with help from Archimedes
  • Tiberius Gracchus was defeated in Bruttium by Hanno Barca

[edit] Asia

• Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China orders all Confucian writings destroyed.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Aratus of Sicyon
• Achaeus is brutally executed by Antiochus the Great