200 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

200 BC Chr.
The Second Macedonian-Roman War begins.
200 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	344/345 (southern Buddhism); 343/344 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	41st (42nd) cycle , year of the metal-ox辛丑 ( at the beginning of the year metal-rat 庚子)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 144th / 1st year of the 145th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3561/62
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DLIV (554)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 111/112 (New Year April); Syria: 112/113 (New Year October)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe and Middle East

• Second Macedonian-Roman War begins.
• Fifth Syrian War : Battle of Paneion
• around 200 BC Chr .: Demetrios I succeeds his father Euthydemus I as ruler of the Greek-Bactrian kingdom .

Asia

• Beginning of the earlier Han period in China
• First Buddhist Kingdom in Sri Lanka

Oceania

• Around 200 BC Polynesian peoples begin colonizing the islands of the Pacific such as Melanesia and Micronesia . One of the first settled islands, starting from Samoa and Tonga , is Bora Bora . The settlement waves last until around the year 400 .

Sports

• The Olympics is Pankration of the boys introduced.

Culture

• Aemilius Sura , a Roman historian, writes around the time.

Born

• around 200 BC Chr .: Polybios , Greek historian († around 120 BC )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum: The Assyrians . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-50828-8 , p. 7 ( books.google.de ).