223 BC

**223 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	223 BC;
Ab urbe condita	531
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2066 – -2065
Berber calendar	728
Buddhist calendar	322
Burmese calendar	-860
Byzantine calendar	5286 – 5287
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年; (2414/2474) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年; (2415/2475)
Coptic calendar	-506 – -505
Ethiopian calendar	-230 – -229
Hebrew calendar	3538 – 3539
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-167 – -166
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2879 – 2880
Holocene calendar	9778
Iranian calendar	844 BP – 843 BP
Islamic calendar	870 BH – 869 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2111
Thai solar calendar	321
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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:	226 BC 225 BC 224 BC - 223 BC - 222 BC 221 BC 220 BC

[edit] Events

The Seleucid king Seleucus III is assassinated in Phrygia by members of his army while on campaign against Attalus of Pergamon.
Seleucus is succeeded by his younger brother, Antiochus III. From the previous administration, Antiochus III retains Hermeias as his chief minister, Achaeus as governor of Anatolia, and Molon and his brother Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces of Media and Persis.

Gaius Flaminius Nepos is elected consul for the first time, and with Publius Furius Philus he forces the Cisalpine Gauls to submit to Rome, creating the province of Cisalpine Gaul.

The Spartan king Cleomenes III destroys and burns the city of Megalopolis but the inhabitants are saved by Philopoemen who leads the defence of the city until the inhabitants can escape.
The king of Macedonia, Antigonus III Doson, restores Macedonian influence in the Peloponnese for the first time in almost two decades. After signing alliances with the Achaeans, Boeotians, Thessalians and the Acarnanians, Antigonus invades the Peloponnese and drives the Spartans out of Argos, taking Orchomenus and Mantineia in the process.

King Diodotus II of Bactria is killed by an usurper, Euthydemus I, founder of the Greco-Bactrian Euthydemid dynasty.

223 BC by topic
Politics
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