222 BC

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

By place

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