204 BC Chr.
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| Second Punic War | |
 Publius Cornelius Scipio lands in Africa. |
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| 204 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 340/341 (southern Buddhism); 339/340 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 41st (42nd) cycle , year of the fire rooster丁酉 ( at the beginning of the year fire monkey丙申) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 143rd / 1st year of the 144th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3557/58 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DL (550) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 107/108 (New Year April); Syria: 108/109 (New Year October) |
Events
Second Punic War
- Scipio Africanus ends up in North Africa in the Second Punic War ; Massinissa , who fled from Syphax , offers him his services.
- Hannibal fights the Roman legions near Crotona - a draw.
- Carthage commissions the general Hasdrubal , supported by the allied West Numid king Syphax, to repel the Roman invasion troops.
Egypt
- Arsinoë III. , who is supposed to rule Egypt for her underage son Ptolemy V , is murdered in a palace revolt by the ministers Agathocles and Sosibios . After the death of Ptolemy IV became known , Philip V of Macedonia and the Seleucid Antiochus III. presumably a robbery treaty to divide Egypt.
Empire of China
- The Xiongnu unite the nomadic tribes in the north of the Han Empire and henceforth constitute the greatest external threat.
Born
- around 204 BC Chr .: Cleopatra I , Egyptian queen († 176 BC )
Died
- Arsinoë III. , Queen of Egypt (* 246 or 245 BC )
- Ptolemy IV , Egyptian Pharaoh (* 245 BC )
- around 204 BC Chr .: Chrysippus , Greek philosopher (* around 276 v. Chr. )
- around 204 BC Chr .: Livius Andronicus , Roman poet (* around 284 BC )
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