Year 222 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 Calvus (or, less frequently...
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Hellenistic period (redirect from History of Greece (323 BC–146 BC))
military power in the Peloponnese. The Spartan king Cleomenes III (235–222 BC) staged a military coup against the conservative ephors and pushed through...
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apparatuses of the Seven Warring States which fought from around 475 BC to 221 BC when the state of Qin conquered the other six states, forming China's...
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was an imperial cult in ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC), promoted by the Ptolemaic dynasty. The core of the cult was the worship...
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225 BC: The Chinese Qin State conquers Wei. 223 BC: The Chinese Qin State conquers Chu. 222 BC: The Chinese Qin State conquers Yan and Zhao. 222 BC: Spartan...
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Ptolemy III Euergetes (category 222 BC deaths)
Benefactor"; c. 280 – November/December 222 BC) was the third pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt from 246 to 222 BC. The Ptolemaic Kingdom reached the...
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With help from some Zhao remnants, he declared himself the King of Dai. In 222 BC, Dai was conquered by the Qin army led by Wang Jian's son, Wang Ben. Prince...
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(approximate date) (b. c. 252 BC) Seleucus III, king of the Seleucid dynasty from 226 BC (assassinated) (b. c. 243 BC) 222 BC Ctesibius, Greek inventor and...
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described by technical writers such as Ctesibius (died 222 BC) and Vitruvius (died after 15 BC). A water clock uses the flow of water to measure time...
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Marcus Claudius Marcellus (category 270s BC births)
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 BC)...
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Cleomenes III (category 260s BC births)
(Ancient Greek: Κλεομένης) was one of the two kings of Sparta from 235 to 222 BC. He was a member of the Agiad dynasty and succeeded his father, Leonidas...
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office—probably 1 May before 222 BC, 15 March from 222 BC and 1 January from 153 BC. The Julian calendar, which began in 45 BC, continued to use 1 January...
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during the Spring and Autumn period. The Qin Empire later annexed it in 222 BC. Under the late Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty that followed it, Zhejiang's...
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abbreviating chrēston (good). Some coins of Ptolemy III Euergetes (r. 246–222 BC) were marked with a Chi-Rho. Although formed of Greek characters, the device...
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Euergetes (246–222 BC). Amen-Re, wearing a tall feather crown and sun disk (715–664 BC) Egyptian aegis of Isis wearing solar crown (664–343 BC) Coin of Ptolemy...
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(283–246 BC) Ptolemy III Euergetes, Pharaoh (246–222 BC) Ptolemy IV Philopator, Pharaoh (221–204 BC) Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Pharaoh (204–181 BC) Kush (complete...
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Zhao (state) (category 222 BC)
BC. Prince Jia, half-brother of King Qian, was proclaimed King Jia at Dai and led the last Zhao forces against the Qin. This regime lasted until 222 BC...
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present-day Guangdong and Guangxi. Cleomenes III, Spartan king from 235 BC to 222 BC, who reorganized Sparta's political structure and struggled unsuccessfully...
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Golasecca culture under the name Medhelanon around 590 BC, conquered by the Romans in 222 BC, who Latinized the name of the city into Mediolanum, and...
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285–222 BC). Heron identifies the gastraphetes as the forerunner of the later catapult, which places its invention some unknown time prior to c. 420 BC....
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Milan (category 1st-millennium BC establishments in Italy)
belonging to the Golasecca culture, it was conquered by the ancient Romans in 222 BC, who latinized the name of the city into Mediolanum. The city's role as...
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Celtic tribe belonging to the Insubres group 400–222 BC Roman Republic 222–27 BC Roman Empire 27 BC–AD 395 Western Roman Empire 395–476 Kingdom of Italy...
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Yan (state) (category 11th-century BC establishments in China)
the 5th to 3rd centuries BC, Yan was one of the last states to be conquered by the armies of Qin Shihuang: Yan fell in 222 BC, the year before the declaration...
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evidence for the existence of any kings before the middle of the sixth century BC or so. Spartan kings received a recurring posthumous hero cult like that of...
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Dai (Warring States period) (category 220s BC)
Dai was a short-lived state from 228 BC to 222 BC during the Warring States period of Chinese history. Prince Zhao Jia, older brother of King Youmiu of...
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Seleucid Empire (category 4th-century BC establishments)
Seleukid Empire, 281–222 BC: War within the Family. Swansea. pp. 173–196. Erickson, Kyle (2018). The Seleukid Empire 281–222 BC: War Within the Family...
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Irereo (category 4th-century BC legendary monarchs)
(246–222 BC). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 337–330 BC, the Annals of the Four Masters to 481–474 BC. Dictionary...
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Crown Prince Dan (category 226 BC deaths)
Yan moved to the Liaodong Commandery. The state of Yan was conquered in 222 BC and King Xi was captured. All except King Xi were featured in the Chinese...
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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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Ctesibius (category 222 BC deaths)
Ctesibius or Ktesibios or Tesibius (Greek: Κτησίβιος; fl. 285–222 BCE) was a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt. Very little...
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