223 BC

223 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar223 BC
CCXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita531
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 101
- PharaohPtolemy III Euergetes, 24
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)139th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4528
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−816 – −815
Berber calendar728
Buddhist calendar322
Burmese calendar−860
Byzantine calendar5286–5287
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
2475 or 2268
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
2476 or 2269
Coptic calendar−506 – −505
Discordian calendar944
Ethiopian calendar−230 – −229
Hebrew calendar3538–3539
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−166 – −165
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2878–2879
Holocene calendar9778
Iranian calendar844 BP – 843 BP
Islamic calendar870 BH – 869 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2111
Minguo calendar2134 before ROC
民前2134年
Nanakshahi calendar−1690
Seleucid era89/90 AG
Thai solar calendar320–321
Tibetan calendarམེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Fire-Ox)
−96 or −477 or −1249
    — to —
ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Earth-Tiger)
−95 or −476 or −1248

Year 223 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaminius and Philus (or, less frequently, year 531 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 223 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

Seleucid Empire

Roman Republic

  • Gaius Flaminius is elected consul for the first time and, with his co-consul Publius Furius Philus, he forces the Gauls south of the Alps to submit to Rome, creating the province of Cisalpine Gaul.

Greece

  • The Spartan king Cleomenes III destroys and burns the city of Megalopolis but the inhabitants are saved by Philopoemen who leads the defence of the city until the inhabitants can escape.
  • The king of Macedonia, Antigonus III Doson, restores Macedonian influence in the Peloponnese for the first time in almost two decades. After signing alliances with the Achaeans, Boeotians, Thessalians and the Acarnanians, Antigonus invades the Peloponnese and drives the Spartans out of Argos, taking Orchomenus and Mantineia in the process.

Bactria

  • King Diodotus II of Bactria is killed by a usurper, Euthydemus I, founder of the Greco-Bactrian Euthydemid dynasty.

China

  • The Qin generals Wang Jian and Meng Wu defeat the Chu general Xiang Yan and the king of Chu, Lord Changping. Lord Changping is killed, and Xiang Yan commits suicide soon afterwards.[2]

Births

Deaths

  • 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)

References

  1. ↑ Volkmann, Hans (February 13, 2024). "Antiochus III the Great". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  2. ↑ Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: The First Emperor, Section: Wang Jian, Section: Meng Tian.
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