214 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

214 BC Chr.
Second Punic War
The Romans begin the siege of Syracuse .
214 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	330/331 (southern Buddhism); 329/330 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	41st (42nd) cycle , year of the fire pig丁亥 ( at the beginning of the year fire dog 丙戌)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 141st Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3547/48
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DXL (540)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 97/98 (turn of April); Syria: 98/99 (turn of the year October)

Events

Second Punic War

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

• The Third Battle of Nola is the last attempt of Hannibal , Nola , the bastion of the Romans in central Italy against the Carthaginians to take. The battle ends with many dead on the Carthaginian side, which leads to a clear victory for Marcus Claudius Marcellus .
• The first battle of Beneventum , a skirmish between an army of slaves under Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus on the Roman side and Hanno on the Carthaginian side, ends with a clear Roman victory.
• The two-year siege of Syracuse by the Romans under Marcus Claudius Marcellus begins.
• Marcus Fabius Buteo becomes princeps senatus .

First Macedonian-Roman War

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• The Macedonian King Philip V conquered the city of Oricum in Illyria during the First Macedonian-Roman War .

Born

• 214/213 BC Chr .: Carneades , Greek philosopher († around 129 / 128V. Chr. )

Died

• Demetrios von Pharos , Greek general in the Adriatic region

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