222 BC Chr.

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222 BC Chr.
Germanic tribes are first mentioned in the Roman fasti triumphales in the battle of Clastidium .
222 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	322/323 (southern Buddhism); 321/322 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	41st (42nd) cycle , year of the earth-hare己卯 ( at the beginning of the year earth-tiger戊寅)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 139th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3539/40
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DXXXII (532)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 89/90 (turn of the year April); Syria: 90/91 (turn of the year October)

Events

Eastern Mediterranean

• July: Battle of Sellasia : The Spartans under Cleomenes III. finally succumb to the opposing Greco-Macedonian coalition under Antigonus III in the Cleomenic War . Doson . Kleomenes fled to Egypt, where he died soon after; the victorious troops occupy Sparta. The kingship there is initially abolished.

Gold octa drachmon Ptolemy IV. Philopator, British Museum

• After the death of Ptolemy III. Euergetes becomes his son Ptolemy IV. Philopator Pharaoh of Egypt .

Western Mediterranean

• Victory of the Romans under Marcus Claudius Maecellus over the Celtic Insubrians under Viridomarus (falls in battle) in the Battle of Clastidium (today: Casteggio). The area of ​​the Po plain, later called Gallia cisalpina , is thus under Roman rule; The Venetians , traditionally Roman allies, also recognize Roman sovereignty. Germanic tribes are mentioned for the first time in the fasti triumphales for battle .

Asia

• Antiochus III. marries Laodike , daughter of Mithridates II , king of Pontus .
• Molon , the governor of the province of Medien , rises against King Antiochus III. This sends his generals Theodotos Hemiolios and Xenon against him.
• The Chinese state of Qin under Qin Shihuangdi subdues the state of Yan . The resistance of the Prince of Zhao is also broken.

Died

• Ptolemy III Euergetes I., Egyptian Pharaoh (* around 284 BC )

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