207 BC

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Year of the Wood horse甲午( at the beginning of the year, water - snake癸巳)

Syria: 105/106 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Second Punic War

• The Romans defeated the Carthaginians in the Battle of Grumentum.
• Roman victory against a Carthaginian army under Hasdrubal Barca at the Battle of Metaurus
• Hannibal retired to Bruttium.

Greece

• Nabis becomes king of Sparta. He leads the social reforms of the former king Cleomenes III. continued and Sparta tries to get hold of foreign policy as an independent power.

Imperial China

• In China goes with the death of Qin Er Shi in October and the arrest of his successor Ziying by Liu Bang in December, the Qin Dynasty to the end. Liu Bang provides the deposed Emperor of the warlord Xiang Yu.

Died

• Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general, Hannibal's brother
• October Qin Er Shi or he Shi Huangdi, the second emperor of the Chinese Qin (* 230 BC)