228 BC Chr.

228 BC Chr.
The Romans defeat the Illyrian Queen Teuta in the First Illyrian War .
228 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	316/317 (southern Buddhism); 315/316 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	41st (42nd) cycle , year of the water tap癸酉 ( at the beginning of the year water monkey壬申)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 137th / 1st Year of the 138th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3533/34
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DXXVI (526)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 83/84 (turn of April); Syria: 84/85 (turn of the year October)

Events

From Corfu , the Roman troops advance northward in the First Illyrian War against the positions held by the Illyrian Queen Teuta . Apollonia , Dyrrhachium and Lissos are taken by the Romans, the Illyrian capital Skutra is besieged. Rome finally defeats Teuta, trapped in their capital, Skutra . The latter must grant independence to the Greek cities it presses and to the neighboring tribes of the Ardieans and Parthines, so that their rule is limited to the area around Skutras. Rome takes over the protectorate over the coast between Lissos and Phoenike and is admitted by the Greeks to the Isthmian Games and the Eleusinian Mysteries. The city of Epidamnum is renamed Dyrrhachium by the Romans.
At the instigation of Aratos of Sikyon, the Macedonian garrison withdraws from Athens and Piraeus . At the same time, the Achaean League under the strategist Aristomachus of Argos takes action against Sparta .

Attalus I of Pergamon defeats the Seleucid pretender Antiochus Hierax in Lydia and on the Harpasus river in Caria , the Galatians at Pergamon.
In the course of the wars of conquest of Qin State , which ultimately lead to the unification of China under Qin's ruler Qin Shihuangdi , Qin defeats his most powerful rival Zhao, whose ruler Youmiu is imprisoned. His stepbrother Jia continued the fight until 222 BC. Chr. Continued.

Tetradrachm with the likeness of Prusias I.

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