220 BC

Year 220 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laevinus/Catulus and Scaevola/Philo (or, less frequently, year 534 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 220 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Greece

• Together with fellow
  Peloponnesus
  of Greece.
• Scerdilaidas and the Aetolians invade Achaea. With the help of
  Arcadia
  .
• Rome strikes again against the Illyrian pirates precipitating the
  Second Illyrian War
  .
• Demetrius seeks refuge with Philip V of Macedon, who is very resentful of the Roman interference. Rome occupies Demetrius' chief fortresses, Pharos and Dimillos.
• Aratus of Sicyon counters Aetolian aggression by obtaining the assistance of the Hellenic League now under the leadership of Philip V of Macedon. In the resulting Social War, the Hellenic League of Greek states is assembled in Corinth at Philip V's instigation. He then leads the Hellenic League in battles against Aetolia, Sparta and Elis.
• The
  Gortynians occupy Matala, on the island of Crete
  .

• Tigris River, defeating and killing. Antiochus goes on to conquer Atropatene.^[1]
• Meanwhile, the birth of a son to Antiochus III and Laodice (daughter of Mithridates II, king of Pontus) leads Hermeias to consider getting rid of the king so that he can rule under the name of the infant son. Antiochus discovers the scheme and arranges the assassination of Hermeias.

Anatolia

• Antiochus III's commander in
  Seleucid
  kingdom.

Egypt

• Arsinoe III marries her brother, King Ptolemy IV of Egypt.^[2]

Roman Republic

• During his censorship, the Roman political leader,
  Ariminum (Rimini
  ).

• Great Wall (Wan li chang cheng).^[4]
• Around this time, Prime Minister
  Small Seal Script
  .

• A bronze statue called Gallic Chieftain killing his wife and himself is made (approximate date). A Roman copy after the original statue is today preserved at Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome.
• A bronze statue called Dying Gallic trumpeter is made (possibly by
  Museo Capitolino in Rome
  .

• Attalus II Philadelphus, king of Pergamon (d. 138 BC)^[5]
• Pacuvius, Roman tragic poet and writer (d. c. 130 BC)
• Tiberius Gracchus the Elder, father of the Roman political reformer Tiberius Gracchus (approximate date) (d. 154 BC)

Deaths

• Conon of Samos, Greek mathematician and astronomer whose work on conic sections (curves of the intersections of a right circular cone with a plane) serves as the basis for the fourth book of the Conics of Apollonius of Perga (b. c. 280 BC)
• Molon, general of the Seleucid king Antiochus III who has rebelled against his rule
• Seleucus III
  and, for a short time, chief minister to Antiochus III

References