222 BC

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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Asia

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

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

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