215 BC

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Year of the Fire Dog丙戌( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster乙酉)

Syria: 97/98 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus is Consul of the Roman Republic. Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus is Suffektkonsul.
  • Alliance of Hannibal with Philip V of Macedon
  • Beginning of the first Macedonian -Roman war ( to 205 BC)
  • Also, in the Second Battle of Nola, Hannibal can not conquer the city Nola.
  • In the Battle of Cornus in Sardinia, the Romans conquer a Carthaginian army.
  • In the Iberian Peninsula the Scipios are in the Battle of Ibera over the Carthaginians under Hasdrubal Barcas, a brother of Hannibal successfully.
  • The lex Oppia restricts the rights of Roman women.

Born

  • 215 BC: Antiochus IV - King of the Seleucid Empire († 164 BC)

Died

  • Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek poet and scholar (* 295 BC )
  • Hiero II of Syracuse, a Greek ruler (c. 306 BC)
  • 215 BC: Arsaces I., founder of the Parthian Empire and the Arsacid dynasty ( * before 250 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 240s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC (decade) 190s BC 180s BC 225 BC 219 BC 211 BC Battle of Nola (215 BC) Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 215 BC) Roman consul Battle of Dertosa Hasdrubal (Barcid) Arsaces I of Parthia
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