222 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades: 250s BC  240s BC  230s BC  – 220s BC –  210s BC  200s BC  190s BC
Years: 225 BC 224 BC 223 BC – 222 BC – 221 BC 220 BC 219 BC

Events

Greece
  • Cleomenes III is defeated and the Spartan army annihilated by the Achaean League and the Macedonians in the Battle of Sellasia.
  • Ptolemy IV succeeds his father Ptolemy III as king of Egypt.

Rome
  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus leads the Romans to victory in the Battle of Clastidium, conquering the area later known as Cisalpine Gaul.
  • The Romans capture Milan.

Asia
  • State of Qin conquers the state of Yan and defeats the last defensive forces of the state of Zhao in China .

Deaths
  • Ptolemy III Euergeter I, king of Egypt
  • Ctesibius, mathematician
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