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This article concerns the period 229 BC – 220 BC.
Births
229 BC
- Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Roman consul and general (d. 160 BC)
- Qin Er Shi, Chinese emperor of the Qin Dynasty (d. 207 BC)
- Titus Quinctius Flaminius, Roman consul and general (d. 174 BC)
227 BC
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Roman consul and general
221 BC
220 BC
- Attalus II Philadelphus, king of Pergamon (d. 138 BC)[1]
- 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
229 BC
- Demetrius II, Macedonian king from 239 BC (b. c. 276 BC)
- Li Mu, Chinese general of the Zhao State (Warring States Period)
- Margos of Keryneia, Greek general of the Achaean League
228 BC
- Ai of Chu, king of the Chu State (Warring States Period)
- Archidamus V,[2] king of Sparta of the Eurypontid line
- Arsames I, king of Armenia, Sophene and Commagene
- 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)
- You of Chu, king of the Chu State (Warring States Period)
227 BC
- Huan Yi, Chinese general of the Qin State (Warring States Period)
- Jing Ke, Chinese retainer and assassin of the Yan State
- Lydiadas of Megalopolis, Greek tyrant and general (strategos)
226 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)
- Lydiadas of Megalopolis
- Seleucus II Callinicus, king of the Seleucid kingdom from 246 BC
225 BC
- Seleucus II Callinicus, king of the Seleucid Empire (246-225 BC)
- Gaius Atilius Regulus, consul of the Roman Republic (Battle of Telamon).
224 BC
- Agiatis, Spartan queen
- Aneroëstes, leader of the Gallic Gaesatae (suicide)
- Dasharatha, Mauryan emperor (approximate date)
223 BC
- Lord Changping, the last king of Chu, one of the Seven Warring States in ancient China.
- Diodotus II, King of Bactria, the son and successor of Diodotus I (approximate date) (b. c. 252 BC)
- Seleucus III, king of the Seleucid dynasty from 226 BC (assassinated) (b. c. 243 BC)
222 BC
- Ctesibius, Greek inventor and mathematician
- Eucleidas, king of Sparta (killed in the Battle of Sellasia)
- Ptolemy III Euergetes (the Benefactor), king of Egypt
- Viridomarus, military leader of the Gaesatae (Gaul)
- Xi of Yan, king of the Yan State (Warring States Period)
221 BC
- 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)
- Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca (assassinated) (b. c. 270 BC)
- Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul and general during the First Punic War (b. c. 290 BC)
- Ptolemy III, king of Egypt, who has reunited Egypt and Cyrenaica and successfully waged the Third Syrian War against the Seleucid Empire
- Xenoetas, Seleucid general (killed during a revolt against Antiochus III)
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
References
[edit]- ^ "Attalus II Philadelphus". Encyclopædia Britannica. February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
- ^ Chrimes, K. M. T.; Atkinson, Kathleen Mary Tyrer Chrimes (1999). Ancient Sparta: A Re-examination of the Evidence. Manchester University Press. p. 501. ISBN 978-0-7190-5741-0.