209 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	230s BC 220s BC 210s BC – 200s BC – 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC
Years:	212 BC 211 BC 210 BC – 209 BC – 208 BC 207 BC 206 BC

209 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**209 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	209 BC
Ab urbe condita	545
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2052 – -2051
Bengali calendar	-801
Berber calendar	742
Buddhist calendar	336
Burmese calendar	-846
Byzantine calendar	5300 – 5301
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2428/2488) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2429/2489)
Coptic calendar	-492 – -491
Ethiopian calendar	-216 – -215
Hebrew calendar	3552 – 3553
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-152 – -151
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2893 – 2894
Holocene calendar	9792
Iranian calendar	830 BP – 829 BP
Islamic calendar	856 BH – 854 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2125
Thai solar calendar	335

Events

The Romans under Fabius Maximus Cunctator capture Tarentum (modern Taranto), which the Carthaginian general Hannibal has held for three years.
The Battle of Asculum is fought between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and a Roman force led by Marcus Claudius Marcellus. The battle is indecisive.
From his headquarters at Tarraco (Tarragona), Publius Cornelius Scipio, the Roman commander in Spain, launches a combined military and naval assault on the Carthaginian headquarters at Carthago Nova (modern-day Cartagena). He successfully besieges and captures the city. In capturing this city, Scipio gains access to copious stores and supplies, Spanish hostages, the local silver mines, a splendid harbour and a base for an advance farther south.

The King of the Parthians, Arsaces II, is attacked by the Seleucid king Antiochus III, who takes Hecatompylos (southeast of the Caspian Sea), the Arsacid capital and Syrinx in Hyrcania. Antiochus III defeats Arsaces II in a battle at Mount Labus and then forces Arsaces II to enter into an alliance with the Seleucids.

As strategos of the Achaeans, the Greek general Philopoemen is responsible for turning the Achaean League into an aggressive military power. He builds up the League's military capability. The Achaean League's army and cavalry under Philopoemen then defeat the Aetolians on the Elean frontier.

Mete Khan inherits Teoman's Hun confederations and founds the Xiongnu Empire. Mete's forces push into Northern China, threatening the Qin Empire and forcing them to further fortify the Great Wall.