212 BC Chr.
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| 212 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 332/333 (southern Buddhism); 331/332 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 41st (42nd) cycle , year of the earth-buffalo己丑 ( at the beginning of the year earth-rat 戊子) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 141st / 1st year of the 142nd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3549/50 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DXLII (542) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 99/100 (turn of April); Syria: 100/101 (New Year October) |
Events
Politics and world events
Second Punic War
- Syracuse and Sagunto are conquered by the Roman army under Marcus Claudius Marcellus .
- Hannibal occupies Taranto and wins the First Battle of Capua .
- First battle on the Silarus
- First Battle of Herdonia
- The East Numid king Massinissa and the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal and their troops strengthen the Carthaginian army on the Iberian Peninsula , which fights against the Romans under the command of Hasdrubal Barkas .
Asia
- Antiochus III. begins with his anabasis , a large-scale campaign to recapture the lost fringes of the Seleucid Empire .
Religion and culture
- The temple house in the Temple of Horus at Edfu , Egypt , is completed under the ruler Ptolemy IV Philopator.
- Construction of the Epang Palace begins under the Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuangdi .
Died
- Archimedes , Greek mathematician and inventor, dies during the conquest of Syracuse (* around 287 BC )
- Hippocrates , Greek politician
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus , Roman consul
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