223 BC Chr.
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| 223 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 321/322 (southern Buddhism); 320/321 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 41st (42nd) cycle , year of the earth tiger戊寅 ( at the beginning of the year fire buffalo丁丑) |
| Greek calendar | 1./2. Year of the 139th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3538/39 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DXXXI (531) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 88/89 (turn of the year April); Syria: 89/90 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Western Mediterranean
- The Roman army under Gaius Flaminius crossed the Po (near Piacenza) for the first time in the fight against the Celts , but was then thrown back by the Celtic insubres . In a second attempt, the Romans succeeded in occupying the area on the left bank of the Po with the help of the allied Cenomaniac.
Eastern Mediterranean
- Sparta under Cleomenes III. gets on the defensive in the Cleomenic War after Argos joins the opposing coalition under Antigonus III. Doson of Macedonia connects. The Spartans see themselves then forced to release thousands of Helots into freedom, whereupon they succeed in taking Megalopoli ; Kleomenes offers the residents who fled to Messinia to return if they break away from the Achaeans. When they refuse, he lets megalopolis razed to the ground. Meanwhile in Arcadia Tegea , Orchomenus and Mantineia are conquered by the opponents of Sparta, the Mantine population enslaved and the city rebuilt as Antigoneia.
Asia
- Seleucus III , King of the Seleucid Empire , is murdered during a campaign against Attalus I. He is succeeded by 18-year-old Antiochus III. (the great). He installed Achaios as governor of the provinces west of the Taurus.
- The Chinese state of Qin , which has already subjugated several states on the Hwangho , is now also conquering the state of Chu between Hwangho and Yangtze . Only a few smaller states in the east are resisting the complete conquest of China, which will also be subjugated in the next two years.
Died
- Seleucus III Keraunos, briefly king in the Seleucid Empire (* 243 BC )
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