210s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	240s BC 230s BC 220s BC – 210s BC – 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC
Years:	219 BC 218 BC 217 BC 216 BC 215 BC 214 BC 213 BC 212 BC 211 BC 210 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

The Second Punic War began when Hannibal conquered Saguntum, then led an army through southern Gaul and across the Alps into Italy. He proceeded to defeat every army Rome sent against him, the Battle of Cannae being his most famous victory.

Antiochus IV Epiphanes, king of the Seleucid Empire (d. 164 BC) (approximate date)

Cleomenes III, Spartan king from 235 BC to 222 BC, who has reorganized Sparta's political structure and struggled unsuccessfully to destroy the Achaean League.

Gaius Flaminius Nepos, Roman consul and general.
Pinnes (also Pinneus or Pineus), son of Agron, king of Illyria, and Agron's first wife Triteuta. He has officially succeeded his father as king in 230 BC, but the kingdom has been ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta and then taken over by the Romans who have placed Demetrius of Pharos in the young king's place.

August 2—Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Roman consul and general (killed in the Battle of Cannae)^[1]
August 2—Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, Roman consul 217 BC (killed in the Battle of Cannae)^[2]
August 2—Marcus Minucius Rufus, Roman consul 221 BC, Master of the Horse 217 BC (killed in the Battle of Cannae)^[2]
After August 2 – Gelo, son of Hiero II^[3]

Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse from 270 BC (b. c. 308 BC)
Hieronymus, grandson of Hiero II of Syracuse and tyrant (assassinated) (b. c. 231 BC)

Aratus of Sicyon, Greek statesman, general and advocate of Greek unity, who, for many years, has been the leader of the Achaean League (b. 271 BC)
Achaeus, Seleucid general and later separatist ruler of most of Anatolia until his defeat and execution by the Seleucid king Antiochus III

Archimedes of Syracuse, Greek mathematician and scientist, who has calculated formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas and other plane and solid figures. He has also founded the science of hydrostatics, including the principle of the upthrust on a floating body which has led to his cry, "Eureka". Thirdly, he has invented siege-engines for use against the Romans and the Archimedean screw to raise water (b. c. 287 BC)
Xerxes of Armenia (assassinated by his wife Antiochia)
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman consul from 215 to 213 BC

Publius Cornelius Scipio, Roman general, consul in 218 BC and later proconsul during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, Roman general, statesman and brother of Publius Cornelius Scipio
Arsaces I, King of Parthia from 250 BC and son of Phriapites, a chief of the seminomadic Parni tribe from the Caspian steppes