224 BC

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Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • Titus Manlius Torquatus is the second time consul of the Roman Republic.
  • The Roman consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus under subdue the Celtic Boii settled on the Po and Lingones; the area to the south shore of the Po is now under Roman control.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Cleomenes III. Sparta secured the Isthmus of Corinth to attack the Macedonians and their allies ( Achaeans, Boeotians, Thessalians and Acarnanians ) on the area occupied by Sparta Peloponnese and takes an attack on Sikyon. After but Argos rises against the Spartan supremacy, must Cleomenes must withdraw from the isthmus.
  • At a meeting of the Achaean League in Aigion is Antigonus III. Doson of Macedon intended for in-chief of the anti- Spartan coalition.

Asia

  • After the death of Dasaratha Samprati becomes ruler of the Indian Mauryan Empire.

Disasters

  • The Colossus of Rhodes is destroyed in an earthquake ( according to other sources 227 and 226 BC).
  • Year ( 3rd century BC)
  • 224 BC
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 250s BC 240s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC (decade) 190s BC 234 BC 228 BC 220 BC 214 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Titus Manlius Torquatus (dictator) Sicyon Antigonus III Doson Dasaratha Maurya Maurya Empire
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