215 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:	218 BC 217 BC 216 BC – 215 BC – 214 BC 213 BC 212 BC

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

**215 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	215 BC
Ab urbe condita	539
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2058 – -2057
Bengali calendar	-807
Berber calendar	736
Buddhist calendar	330
Burmese calendar	-852
Byzantine calendar	5294 – 5295
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2422/2482) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2423/2483)
Coptic calendar	-498 – -497
Ethiopian calendar	-222 – -221
Hebrew calendar	3546 – 3547
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-158 – -157
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2887 – 2888
Holocene calendar	9786
Iranian calendar	836 BP – 835 BP
Islamic calendar	862 BH – 861 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2119
Thai solar calendar	329

Events

The Carthaginian general, Hannibal, is denied any reinforcements from Spain for his forces now based in Italy by the activities of the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, who, in a battle at Dertosa near the Ebro River effectively stop the Carthaginian general, Hasdrubal's attempt to break through to Italy.

The Roman law, Lex Oppia, is instituted by Gaius Oppius, a tribune of the plebs during the consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. The Lex Oppia is the first of a series of sumptuary laws introduced in Rome. It not only restricts women's wealth, but also their displaying it.
The Roman consul, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, is surprised and killed by Hannibal's forces. The Roman general, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, again repulses an attack by Hannibal on the city of Nola.
Hannibal's forces occupy the cities of Tarentum, Heraclea and Thurii. However, Hannibal is unable to prevent the Romans from besieging Capua.

Philip V of Macedon and Hannibal negotiate an alliance under which they pledge mutual support and defence. Specifically, they agree to support each other against Rome, and that Hannibal shall have the right to make peace with Rome, but that any peace would include Philip and that Rome would be forced to give up control of Corcyra, Apollonia, Epidamnus, Pharos, Dimale, Parthini and Atintania and to restore to Demetrius of Pharos all his lands currently controlled by Rome.

The Seleucid king, Antiochus III, crosses the Taurus, uniting his forces with Attalus of Pergamum and, in one campaign, deprives his rebel general, Achaeus, of all his dominions and takes Sardis (with the exception of the citadel).

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

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)