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220 BC
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{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2011}}{{Year nav|-220}}{{BC year in topic|220}}(File:Europe map 220BC.PNG|thumb|220 BC.)__NOTOC__Year 220 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laevinus/Catulus and Scaevola/Philo (or, less frequently, year 534 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 220 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.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Events
By place
Greece
- Together with fellow Illyrian, Scerdilaidas, Demetrius of Pharos attacks Illyrian cities under Roman protection and leads a piratical squadron into Greek waters. They unsuccessfully attack Pylos, an Achaean town on the Messenian coast, in the Peloponnesus of Greece.
- Scerdilaidas and the Aetolians invade Achaea. With the help of Cynaethan traitors, they attack, seize and burn Cynaetha, a town in the north of Arcadia.
- Rome strikes again against the Illyrian pirates precipitating the Second Illyrian War.
- Demetrius seeks refuge with Philip V of Macedon, who is very resentful of the Roman interference. Rome occupies Demetrius' chief fortresses, Pharos and Dimillos.
- Aratus of Sicyon counters Aetolian aggression by obtaining the assistance of the Hellenic League now under the leadership of Philip V of Macedon. In the resulting Social War, the Hellenic League of Greek states is assembled in Corinth at Philip V's instigation. He then leads the Hellenic League in battles against Aetolia, Sparta and Elis.
- The Gortynians occupy Matala, on the island of Crete.
Seleucid Empire
- Antiochus III the Great defeats Molon at the Tigris River, defeating and killing. Antiochus goes on to conquer Atropatene.WEB,weblink February 26, 2024, Antiochus III the Great, Hans, Volkmann, February 13, 2024, Encyclopædia Britannica,
- Meanwhile, the birth of a son to Antiochus III and Laodice (daughter of Mithridates II, king of Pontus) leads Hermeias to consider getting rid of the king so that he can rule under the name of the infant son. Antiochus discovers the scheme and arranges the assassination of Hermeias.
Anatolia
- Antiochus III's commander in Anatolia, Achaeus, having recovered all the districts which Attalus of Pergamum has gained, is accused by Hermeias, the chief minister of Antiochus, of intending to revolt. In self-defence, Achaeus assumes the title of king and rules over the Anatolian parts of the Seleucid kingdom.
Egypt
- Arsinoe III marries her brother, King Ptolemy IV of Egypt.BOOK, Dodson, Aidan,weblink The complete royal families of Ancient Egypt, 2004, Thames & Hudson, Dyan Hilton, 0-500-05128-3, London, 59265536,
Roman Republic
- During his censorship, the Roman political leader, Gaius Flaminius, builds the Circus FlaminiusBOOK, 25, John E., Stambaugh, Baltimore, 1988, Johns Hopkins University Press, The Ancient Roman City, 0-8018-3574-7, on the Campus Martius and constructs the Via Flaminia from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini).
China
- Qin Shi Huang begins a system of tree-lined roads to interconnect all parts of China, and begins to join regional walls to form the beginnings of the Great Wall (Wan li chang cheng).{{Citation|last=Dumitru|first=Adrian George|title=Some thoughts about Seleucid Thrace in the 3rd century BC|date=2015-11-30|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr43k44.46|work=The Danubian Lands between the Black, Aegean and Adriatic Seas|pages=293â298|publisher=Archaeopress Publishing Ltd|doi=10.2307/j.ctvr43k44.46 |isbn=978-1-78491-193-5|access-date=2021-05-27}}
- Around this time, Prime Minister Li Si publishes Cangjiepian, a primer on the new orthographic standard for all of China, the Small Seal Script.
By topic
Art
- A bronze statue called Gallic Chieftain killing his wife and himself is made (approximate date). A Roman copy after the original statue is today preserved at Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome.
- A bronze statue called Dying Gallic trumpeter is made (possibly by Epigonus) (230-220 BC). A marble Roman copy after the original statue is today preserved at Museo Capitolino in Rome.
Births
- Attalus II Philadelphus, king of Pergamon (d. 138 BC)WEB, February 27, 2024,weblink Attalus II Philadelphus, February 13, 2024, Encyclopædia Britannica,
- Pacuvius, Roman tragic poet and writer (d. c. 130 BC)
- Tiberius Gracchus the Elder, father of the Roman political reformer Tiberius Gracchus (approximate date) (d. 154 BC)
Deaths
- 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
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