208 BC

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Year of the Water Snake癸巳( at the beginning of the year Water Dragon壬辰)

Syria: 104/105 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Second Punic War

  • Titus Manlius Torquatus The former consul is collected at the dictator of the Roman Republic.
  • Scipio the Elder remains at the Battle of Baecula winner over Hasdrubal Barcas. This resolves to intensify with the remnants of his army, the army of Hannibal in Italy and selects the overland route across the Pyrenees and the Alps.
  • Mago, the youngest brother of Hannibal, the supreme command of the Carthaginian units obtained on the Iberian Peninsula.

Asia

  • Li Si, Chancellor of the First Emperor of China, an intrigue falls victim suffers and the "five sentences " of the Qin Dynasty.
  • The Parthian Empire is from the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus III. conquered.

Died

  • August: Li Si, Chinese philosopher and politician (c. 280 BC)
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