214 BC - Definition and Overview

Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC

Decades: 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC - 210s BC - 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC

Years: 219 BC 218 BC 217 BC 216 BC 215 BC - 214 BC - 213 BC 212 BC 211 BC 210 BC 209 BC

Events

• Second Punic War: In the Third Battle of Nola, Marcus Claudius Marcellus fights an inconclusive battle with Hannibal.
• Publius Cornelius Scipio is elected aedile at age 22, opposed by the tribunes on account of his youth, but supported by the people.
• The censors Marcus Atilius Regulus and Publius Furius Philus prosecute and punish a number of citizens who had planned to abandon Rome after the Battle of Cannae.
• Fanyu (Guangzhou, or Canton) was established as a city.

Births

Deaths

• Diophantus, mathematician
• Hieronymus, grandson of Hiero II of Syracuse and tyrant (assassination)