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Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅( at the beginning of the year fire - buffalo丁丑)

Syria: 89/90 ( the year in October )

Events

The Roman army under Gaius Flaminius exceeds in the fight against the Celts first time the Po ( near Piacenza ), but is then thrown back by the Celtic Insubres. In a second attempt, the Romans achieved with the help of the allied Cenomani the occupation of the territory on the left bank of the Po.

Sparta under Cleomenes III. device in Kleomenischen war on the defensive after Argos, the opposing coalition under Antigonus III. Doson of Macedonia followed. The Spartans look at then forced to lay off their helots to freedom, after which they manage the intake of Megalopolis; Cleomenes fled to Messenia offers the residents of the return, if they renounce the Achaeans. When they refuse, can Cleomenes Megalopolis raze. Meanwhile in Empire Arcadia Tegea, Orchomenus and Mantinea by the opponents of Sparta, enslaved the population mantineische and rebuilt the city as Antigoneia.

Seleucus III. , King of the Seleucid Empire, is assassinated during a campaign against Attalus I of Pergamum. Successor, the 18 -year-old Antiochus III. (the Great). He sits Achaeus as a governor of the western provinces of the Taurus.
The Chinese state Qin, who has previously been subject to several states in the Yellow River, is now conquering the state of Chu Hwang Ho and Yangtze between. The complete conquest of China oppose only a few smaller states in the east, which are also subjected to in the next two years.

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