220s BC
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Events
229 BC
By place
Anatolia
- Attalus I of Pergamon wins the Battle of the Harpasus in western Anatolia.
Greece
- The First Illyrian War starts when the Roman Senate dispatches an army under the command of the consuls Lucius Postumius Albinus and Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus to Illyria. Rome forces the withdrawal of Illyrian garrisons in the Greek cities of Epidamnus, Apollonia, Corcyra and Pharos and establishes a protectorate over these Greek towns.
- The Illyrian tribe of the Ardiaei is subdued by the Romans.
- The King of Macedonia, Demetrius II, dies. His nephew, Antigonus III comes to the Macedonian throne as regent for his half-cousin and the future king Philip V, who is only ten years old.
- Concerned at Rome's expansion, Antigonus III pursues a policy of befriending the Illyrians, even though the Greeks in the region support Rome in quelling the Illyrian pirates.
- The involvement of Rome in Illyria leads to the establishment of friendly relations between Rome and the enemies of Macedonia: the Aetolian League and Achaean League, which approve the suppression of Illyrian piracy.
- Aratus of Sicyon brings Argos into the Achaean League and then helps liberate Athens. This brings Aratus into conflict with Sparta.
China
- The state of Qin conquers the state of Zhao.
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Births
- 229 BC
- Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Roman general, consul and politician (d. 160 BC)
- Qin Er Shi, Emperor of Qin China (d. 207 BC)
- 228 BC
- Prusias I Chlorus, king of Bithynia (d. 182 BC)
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus, a Roman politician and general who will be instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece (d. 174 BC)
Deaths
- 229 BC – Demetrius II, King of Macedonia from 239 BC (b. c. 276 BC)
- 228 BC
- Hamilcar Barca, Carthaginian general who has assumed command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily during the last years of the First Punic War with Rome, helped Carthage win the Mercenary War and brought extensive territory in the Iberian Peninsula under Carthaginian control (b. c. 270 BC)
- Archidamus V, king of Sparta of the Eurypontid line
- 226 BC
- Seleucus II Callinicus, king of the Seleucid kingdom from 246 BC
- Antiochus Hierax, younger brother of Seleucus II, who has fought with him over the control of the Seleucid dominions in the Middle East (b. c. 263 BC)
- 224 BC – Aneroëstes, leader of the Gallic Gaesatae (suicide)
- 223 BC
- Seleucus III, king of the Seleucid dynasty from 226 BC (assassinated)
- Diodotus II, King of Bactria, the son and successor of Diodotus I
- 222 BC – Ctesibius (or Tesibius) of Alexandria, Greek inventor and mathematician
- 221 BC
- Ptolemy III, King of Egypt, who has reunited Egypt and Cyrenaica and successfully waged the Third Syrian War against the Seleucid kingdom
- Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca (assassinated)
- Antigonus III Doson, King of Macedon from 227 BC (b. 263 BC)
- Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica (in modern Libya), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt (b. c. 267 BC)
- Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul and general during the First Punic War (b. c. 290 BC)
- 220 BC
- Conon of Samos, Greek mathematician and astronomer whose work on conic sections (curves of the intersections of a right circular cone with a plane) serves as the basis for the fourth book of the Conics of Apollonius of Perga (b. c. 280 BC)
- Molon, general of the Seleucid king Antiochus III who has rebelled against his rule
- Hermeias, the favourite and chief minister of the Seleucid king Seleucus III and, for a short time, chief minister to Antiochus III