228 BC

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228 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 228 BC
CCXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 526
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 96
- Pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes, 19
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 138th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4523
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −821 – −820
Berber calendar 723
Buddhist calendar 317
Burmese calendar −865
Byzantine calendar 5281–5282
Chinese calendar 壬申年 (Water  Monkey)
2470 or 2263
     to 
癸酉年 (Water  Rooster)
2471 or 2264
Coptic calendar −511 – −510
Discordian calendar 939
Ethiopian calendar −235 – −234
Hebrew calendar 3533–3534
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −171 – −170
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2873–2874
Holocene calendar 9773
Iranian calendar 849 BP – 848 BP
Islamic calendar 875 BH – 874 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2106
Minguo calendar 2139 before ROC
民前2139年
Nanakshahi calendar −1695
Seleucid era 84/85 AG
Thai solar calendar 315–316
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Water-Monkey)
−101 or −482 or −1254
     to 
ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Water-Bird)
−100 or −481 or −1253

Year 228 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ruga and Verrucosus (or, less frequently, year 526 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 228 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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Carthage

  • The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca is killed in a battle in Hispania, ending his lengthy campaign to conquer the Iberian Peninsula for Carthage. In eight years, by force of arms and diplomacy, he has secured an extensive territory in the Iberian Peninsula, but his death in battle prevents him from completing the conquest. Command of his army in the Iberian Peninsula passes to his son-in-law Hasdrubal.
  • Hasdrubal makes immediate policy changes, emphasizing the use of diplomatic rather than military methods for expanding Carthaginian Hispania and dealing with Rome. He founds Carthago Nova or New Carthage (modern Cartagena) as his capital city.

Asia Minor

Greece

  • The Illyrian queen Teuta's governor, Demetrius of Pharos has little alternative but to surrender to the overwhelming Roman force. In return, the Romans award him a considerable part of Teuta's holdings to counter-balance the power of Teuta. Meanwhile, the Roman army lands further north at Apollonia. The combined Roman army and fleet proceed northward together, subduing one town after another and besieging Shkodra, the Illyrian capital.
  • Archidamus V, brother of the murdered Spartan King Agis IV, is called back to Sparta by the Agiad King Cleomenes III, who has no counterpart on the throne by then. However, Archidamus V is assassinated shortly after returning.

China

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References

  1. Chrimes, K. M. T.; Atkinson, Kathleen Mary Tyrer Chrimes (1999). Ancient Sparta: A Re-examination of the Evidence. Manchester University Press. p. 501. ISBN   978-0-7190-5741-0.