224 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

224 BC Chr.
Cleomenes III. von Sparta leads an unsuccessful campaign against Sikyon .
224 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	320/321 (southern Buddhism); 319/320 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	41st (42nd) cycle , year of the Fire Ox丁丑 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Rat丙子)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 138th / 1st year of the 139th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3537/38
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DXXX (530)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 87/88 (turn of the year April); Syria: 88/89 (turn of the year October)

Events

Politics and world events

Western Mediterranean

• Titus Manlius Torquatus is consul of the Roman Republic for the second time .
• Celtic War in Northern Italy : The Romans under Consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus subdue the Celtic Boier and Lingons who settled on the Po ; the area up to the south bank of the Pos is thus under Roman control.

Eastern Mediterranean

• Cleomenic War : Cleomenes III. of Sparta fortifies the isthmus of Corinth against an attack by the Macedonians and their allies (Achaeans, Boeotians, Thessalians and Acarnanians) on the Peloponnese occupied by Sparta and undertakes an attack on Sicyon . But after Argos rises against the Spartan rule, Cleomenes has to withdraw from the isthmus.
• At a meeting of the Achaean League in Aigion , Antigonus III. Doson of Macedonia appointed commander in chief of the anti-spartan coalition.

Asia

• After Dasaratha's death , Samprati becomes ruler of the Maurya Empire of India .

Disasters

• The Colossus of Rhodes is destroyed in an earthquake (according to other sources 227 or 226 BC ).