212 BC

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Syria: 100/101 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Second Punic War

  • Syracuse and Sagunto be conquered by the Roman army under Marcus Claudius Marcellus.
  • Hannibal occupied Taranto and is victorious in the First Battle of Capua.
  • First Battle of the Silarus
  • First Battle of Herdonia
  • The ostnumidische King Masinissa and the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal reinforce their troops with the Carthaginian army in the Iberian Peninsula, fighting under the command of Hasdrubal Barcas against the Romans.

Asia

  • Antiochus III. begins with his Anabasis, a large-scale campaign to retake the lost peripheral areas of the Seleucid Empire.

Religion and Culture

  • The temple house in the Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt, completed under the Ptolemy IV Philopator ruler.
  • Under the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, the construction of Epang Palace begins.

Died

  • Archimedes, a Greek mathematician and inventor dies during the conquest of Syracuse (c. 287 BC)
  • Hippocrates, a Greek politician
  • Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman consul
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 240s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC (decade) 190s BC 180s BC 222 BC 216 BC 208 BC 202 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Battle of Herdonia (212 BC) Hasdrubal Gisco Hasdrubal (Barcid) Anabasis (Xenophon) Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 215 BC)
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