• Year 208 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Crispinus (or, less frequently...
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  • Sextus Julius Caesar was a Roman praetor in 208 BC, during the Second Punic War. He is thought to be the ancestor of all of the later Julii Caesares who...
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    Caesares to appear in history was Sextus Julius Caesar, praetor in Sicily in 208 BC. From the filiation of his son, Sextus, "Sex. f. L. n.", we know that his...
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  • to: Sextus Julius Caesar (praetor 208 BC) Sextus Julius Caesar (consul 157 BC) Sextus Julius Caesar (consul 91 BC) Sextus Julius Caesar (governor of...
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    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (category 208 BC deaths)
    208 BC) was a Roman general and politician during the 3rd century BC. Five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic (222, 215, 214, 210, and 208...
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    Hannibal (category 3rd-century BC Punic people)
    destroying two Roman armies in 212 BC, and killing two consuls, including the famed Marcus Claudius Marcellus in a battle in 208 BC. However, Hannibal slowly began...
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    Second Punic War (category 200s BC conflicts)
    north-east. In 209 BC the new Roman commander Publius Scipio captured Carthago Nova, the main Carthaginian base in the peninsula. In 208 Scipio defeated...
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    (d. 170 BC) Wen, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (d. 157 BC) 209 BC Touman, chanyu of the Xiongnu Empire. (Killed by his successor) 208 BC Marcus Claudius...
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  • 210 BC Kykliadas of Pharae 210 - 209 BC Philopoemen of Megalopolis I 209 - 208 BC Nikias 208 - 207 BC Philopoemen of Megalopolis II 207 - 206 BC Lysippos...
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  • Li Si (category 208 BC deaths)
    ([lì sɹ̩́]; c. 280 – 208 BC) was a Chinese calligrapher, philosopher, and politician of the Qin dynasty. He served as Chancellor from 246 to 208 BC, first under...
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  • this event took place in 208 BC; whereas the Chinese Records of the Grand Historian dates the enthronement of Thục Phán in 218 BC, amidst the Qin campaign...
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    the Warring States period (481 BC – 403 BC) and the Qin state (9th century BC – 221 BC) and dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC). Early Warring States period Qin...
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    Even so, many of them later fought against the Romans. In the spring of 208 BC Hasdrubal moved to engage Scipio at the battle of Baecula. The Carthaginians...
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    Wu Guang (category 200s BC deaths)
    (simplified Chinese: 吴广; traditional Chinese: 吳廣, died December 209 BC or January 208 BC) was a leader of the first rebellion against the Qin dynasty during...
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    The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical Era, epoch, or historical...
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  • Unknown Emperor (207 BC) January 206 BC Executed prisoner of war Zhao Gao China (Qin dynasty) Unknown Chancellor (208 BC–207 BC) 207 BC Executed Zhao Xian...
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    Titus Quinctius Flamininus (category 220s BC births)
    Titus Quinctius Flamininus (229 – 174 BC) was a Roman politician and general instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece. Flamininus belonged to the minor...
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    Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising (category 200s BC conflicts)
    Chinese: 陳勝吳廣起義; pinyin: Chén Shèng Wú Guǎng Qǐyì), August 209 B.C.– January 208 B.C., was the first uprising against the Qin dynasty following the death...
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  • career, being consul in 235 BC and 224 BC, censor in 231 BC, and dictator in 208 BC. He was an ally of Fabius Maximus "Cunctator". Titus belonged to the patrician...
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  • Liu Ruyi (category 208 BC births)
    Liu Ruyi (208 – c.January 194 BC), posthumously known as the "Suffering King of Zhao" (趙隱王, Zhào Yǐnwáng), was the only son of the first Han emperor Liu...
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  • Zhuang Jia (rebel) (category 3rd-century BC Chinese people)
    Chinese: 莊賈; simplified Chinese: 庄贾; pinyin: Zhuāng Jiǎ; died 208 BC) was a 3rd-century BC Chinese rebel involved in the Dazexiang Uprising against the...
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    the plebs in 218 BC; probably the same person as Quintus Claudius Flamen, praetor in 208. Quintus Claudius Flamen, praetor in 208 BC, and subsequently...
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  • Zhao Gao (category 207 BC deaths)
    Zhao Gao (died c. October 207 BC) was a Chinese politician. He was an official of the Qin dynasty of China. Allegedly a eunuch, he served as a close aide...
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    Julius Caesar (category 100 BC births)
    the cognomen Caesar was a praetor in 208 BC during the Second Punic War. The family's first consul was in 157 BC, though their political fortunes had...
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    century BC Kingdom of Macedonia 210 BC-208 BC Kingdom of Dardania 208 BC-170 BC Kingdom of Macedonia 170 BC-148 BC Roman Republic 148 BC - 27 BC Roman Empire...
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  • Xiang Liang (category 208 BC deaths)
    Xiang Liang (died 208 BC) was a military leader who led a rebellion against the Qin dynasty. Xiang Liang was from Xiaxiang (下相; present-day Suqian, Jiangsu)...
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    Xiang Yu (category 232 BC births)
    title of "Duke of Lu" (魯公) by King Huai II of the restoring Chu state in 208 BC. The following year, he led the Chu forces to victory at the Battle of Julu...
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  • defeats Marcellus once more 209 BC – Battle of Asculum – Hannibal once again defeats Marcellus, in an indecisive battle 208 BC – Battle of Baecula – Romans...
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  • Battle of Petelia (category 208 BC)
    summer of 208 BC near Petelia. The Carthaginian general Hannibal surprised and destroyed a large Roman detachment. In the summer of 208 BC, the Roman...
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  • 'window' on the left, with the 月 'Moon' component on the right. Li Si (d. 208 BC), the Chancellor of Qin, attempted to universalize the Qin small seal script...
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