208 BC
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| Centuries: | 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC |
| Years: | 211 BC 210 BC 209 BC - 208 BC - 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC |
| 208 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 208 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 546 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2051 – -2050 |
| Berber calendar | 743 |
| Buddhist calendar | 337 |
| Burmese calendar | -845 |
| Chinese calendar | 2429/2489 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2430/2490([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -491 – -490 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -215 – -214 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3553 – 3554 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -152 – -151 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2894 – 2895 |
| Holocene calendar | 9793 |
| Iranian calendar | 829 BP – 828 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 854 BH – 853 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2126 |
| Thai solar calendar | 336 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Republic
- The Romans under Publius Cornelius Scipio defeat the Carthaginians under their commander Hasdrubal Barca at Baecula (Bailen) in Baetica. As a result, Hasdrubal Barca decides to cross the Pyrenees with his remaining troops into Transalpine Gaul, with the intention of joining his brother Hannibal in Italy.
- The Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus is killed in battle while fighting Hannibal inconclusively near Venusia, Apulia.
- Hannibal destroys a Roman force engaged in the siege of Locri Epizephyri.
[edit] Seleucid Empire
- Antiochus III advances into Bactria, which is ruled by the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus I, and again meets with success. After resisting a siege of his capital Bactra (Balkh) by the Seleucids, Euthydemus obtains an honourable peace by which Antiochus promises Euthydemus' son Demetrius the hand of one of his daughters.
[edit] China
- The Chinese general Zhang Han of the Qin Dynasty pacifies a peasant rebellion led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and then lays siege to the rebel city of Julu.
