226 BC

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226 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 226 BC
CCXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita 528
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 98
- Pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes, 21
Ancient Greek era 138th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4525
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −818
Berber calendar 725
Buddhist calendar 319
Burmese calendar −863
Byzantine calendar 5283–5284
Chinese calendar 甲戌年 (Wood  Dog)
2472 or 2265
    — to —
乙亥年 (Wood  Pig)
2473 or 2266
Coptic calendar −509 – −508
Discordian calendar 941
Ethiopian calendar −233 – −232
Hebrew calendar 3535–3536
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −169 – −168
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2875–2876
Holocene calendar 9775
Iranian calendar 847 BP – 846 BP
Islamic calendar 873 BH – 872 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2108
Minguo calendar 2137 before ROC
民前2137年
Nanakshahi calendar −1693
Seleucid era 86/87 AG
Thai solar calendar 317–318
Tibetan calendar 阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
−99 or −480 or −1252
    — to —
阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
−98 or −479 or −1251

Year 226 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Fullo (or, less frequently, year 528 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 226 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.

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Greece

Roman Republic

  • A formidable host of Gauls, some of them from across the Alps, threaten Rome.
  • The Greek merchants of Massilia, frightened by Carthaginian successes in Spain (including their exploitation of the Spanish silver mines), appeal to Rome. Rome makes an alliance with the independent Spanish port city of Saguntum south of the Ebro River.
  • The Romans send an embassy to Hasdrubal and conclude the Ebro Treaty which prohibits him from waging war north of the river Ebro, but allowing him a free hand to the south even at the expense of the interests of the town of Massilia.

Seleucid Empire

  • Antiochus Hierax, brother of the Seleucid King Seleucus II manages to escape from captivity in Thrace and flees to the mountains to raise an army, but he is killed by a band of Galatians.
  • Seleucus II dies after a fall from his horse and is succeeded by his eldest son Seleucus III Soter. At the time of Seleucus II's death, the empire of the Seleucids, with its capital at Antioch on the Orontes, stretches from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India and includes southern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and northern Syria. Dynastic power is upheld by a mercenary army and by the loyalty of many Greek cities founded by Alexander the Great and his successors. The strength of the empire is already being sapped by repeated revolts in its eastern provinces and dissention amongst the members of the Seleucid dynasty.

China

  • The Qin generals Wang Jian, Li Xin and Wang Ben conquer western Yan and its capital Ji. To secure peace, king Xi of Yan executes his son Crown Prince Dan, who is wanted for the attempted assassination of the king of Qin, Ying Zheng.
  • Lord Changping defects from the State of Qin and returns to his motherland in Chu.
  • That same year, ex-Han nobility launched a failed rebellion against the Qin Forces. But in the end they were crushed.

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References

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