226 B.C. Olympiad 138.3Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | MAC << The Megalopolitans send an embassy to Antigonus, with the consent of Aratus.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_2.47'3-50'9;* Plut:Arat_38'11-12; {CAH_7.1'459-462; Green_258.} |
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| 2 | PEL The council of the Achaean League decides against an alliance with Antigonus, because it would involve the surrender of Corinth.
@ ~Polyb_2.50'10-51'2. |
| 3 | AEG << The Colossus of Rhodes is broken by an earthquake which devastates various parts of the Aegean.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_5.88'1-90'8;* ~Diod_26.8'1; Strab_14.652'd;(2.5) ~Plin:HN_34'41;L Paus_2.7'1; Just_30.4'3-4; +ChronPasc_432'A; !Hieron:Chron_1793; Oros_4.13'13;L Malal_190, 279; {CAH_7.1'433; Green_33.} |
| 4 | PEL Aratus defeats and captures Megistonous at Orchomenus.
@ Plut:Arat_38'1; {CAH_7.1'463; Green_701.} |
| 5 | EGY {19 Pachon -E = July} Document: PGurob_2, a judgement by a court of ten judges at Crocodilopolis.
@ PLoeb_2.256. |
| 6 | THR Antiochus Hierax is killed by a band of Gauls.
* Read Phylarchus' account @ Phylarch_49;* Polyb_5.74'4; Plin:HN_8'158;L Just_27.3'11; Trog:Prol_27; [Euseb]:Chron_253'a; {CAH_7.1'429; OCD_a.} |
| 7 | PEL Cleomenes captures Mantineia.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_2.58'1-10;* ~Plut:Cleom_14'1, :Arat_39'1; {CAH_7.1'463.} |
| 8 | Cleomenes heavily defeats the Achaeans at the battle of Hecatombaeum.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Polyb_2.51'3; ~Plut:Cleom_14'4-5, :Arat_39'1;* Paus_2.7'4, 9'2, 7.7'3; {CAH_7.1'463.} |
| 9 | SYR ?? Seleucus founds a new quarter at Antioch.
@ Strab_16.750'b.(2.4) |
| 10 | The death of Seleucus II, who is succeeded by his son Seleucus III.
* Read BabylonianChronicle's account @ BabylChron_10'R7-9, +BM.35603'O15-R1,* IM.65066; Polyb_4.48'6, 5.40'5; Appian:Syr_66'a; Just_27.3'12; Trog:Prol_27; Porph:Fr_44; ~[Euseb]:Chron_251'b, 253'a, 263'a; +Hieron:Chron_1791; Sulpit_2.19'a; {CAH_7.1'429; OCD_s.} |
| 11 | SPA >> Hasdrubal agrees to a treaty with the Romans, setting the river Ebro as the boundary between their spheres of influence.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_2.13'3-7,* ~22'9-11, 3.27'9, 30'3; Liv_21.2'7, 18'9, 34.13'7; Strab_3.159'c;(4.6) Silius_1'479-480;L Flor_1.22'4; ~Appian:Hisp_7'a-b, :Hann_2'b, :Pun_6'a; Zonar_8.21'c; {CAH_8'28-31; OCD_h.} |
| 12 | ROM >> M.Marcellus as aedile punishes the tribune (or aedile?) C.Scantinius.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ValMax_6.1'7;L Plut:Marc_2'3-8;* {The date can be calculated approximately from the fact that Marcellus was consul in 222 B.C.} |
| 13 | >> A Greek and a Gaul are buried alive at Rome, to allay fears of a Gallic invasion.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Liv_22.57'6; Plin:HN_28'12;L Plut:Marc_3'6-7,* :Mor_283'F; MinFel:Oct_30'4; DioCass_fr.50'1; ~Oros_4.13'3-4;L ~Zonar_8.19'h-i. |
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