210 BC Chr.

210 BC Chr.
The Chinese emperor Qin Shihuangdi is buried in his mausoleum together with the terracotta army.
210 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	334/335 (southern Buddhism); 333/334 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	41st (42nd) cycle , year of the metal hare辛卯 ( at the beginning of the year metal tiger 庚寅)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 142nd Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3551/52
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DXLIV (544)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 101/102 (New Year April); Syria: 102/103 (New Year October)

Events

Course of the Second Punic War 218–202 BC Chr.

Publius Cornelius Scipio becomes Roman commander in chief on the Iberian Peninsula .
Carthage vacates Sicily in the Second Punic War .
A Second Battle of Herdonia is fought in the Second Punic War . Hannibal wins here too and then has the nearby town of Numistro plundered. His Roman opponent Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus is killed in battle. Political unrest then breaks out in Rome.
The battle of Numistro between Hannibal and the Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus ends without a clear result.

Detail of the terracotta army found in 1974 : warriors on foot and horses

The mausoleum of Qin Shihuangdis , the founder of the Qin Dynasty and the Chinese Empire , is completed. After his death on September 10th, a terracotta army and all concubines who had not given birth to him are trapped in the tomb along with Qin Shihuangdi .

Qin Shihuangdi

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