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