224 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	250s BC 240s BC 230s BC – 220s BC – 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC
Years:	227 BC 226 BC 225 BC – 224 BC – 223 BC 222 BC 221 BC

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

224 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	224 BC
Ab urbe condita	530
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4527
Bahá'í calendar	-2067–-2066
Bengali calendar	-816
Berber calendar	727
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	321
Burmese calendar	-861
Byzantine calendar	5285–5286
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (2413/2473) — to — 丁丑年 (2414/2474)
Coptic calendar	-507–-506
Ethiopian calendar	-231–-230
Hebrew calendar	3537–3538
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-167–-166
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2878–2879
Holocene calendar	9777
Iranian calendar	845 BP – 844 BP
Islamic calendar	871 BH – 870 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2110
Minguo calendar	2135 before ROC 民前2135年
Thai solar calendar	320

Year 224 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Torquatus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 530 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 224 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Greece

After the Spartan King Cleomenes III takes Pellene, Phlius and Argos, Aratus of Sicyon is forced to call upon King Antigonus III of Macedonia for assistance. Antigonus III's forces fail to pierce Cleomenes' lines near Corinth, but a revolt against Cleomenes at Argos put the Spartans on the defensive.

Roman Republic

The Romans, led by Consuls Gaius Atilius Regulus and Lucius Aemilius Papus, decisively defeat the coalition of Cisalpine Gallic tribes at the Battle of Telamon thus extending Roman influence over northern Italy. On the Roman side Gaius Atilius Regulus, commander of the Roman cavalry, is killed in the battle. On the Gallic side, one of the leaders, Concolitanus, is captured in battle, while the leader of the Gaesatae, Aneroëstes, kills himself when the battle is lost.

Births

Deaths

Aneroëstes, leader of the Gallic Gaesatae (suicide)