228 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	250s BC  240s BC  230s BC  – 220s BC –  210s BC  200s BC  190s BC
Years:	231 BC 230 BC 229 BC – 228 BC – 227 BC 226 BC 225 BC

228 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	228 BC
Ab urbe condita	526
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 96
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 19
Ancient Greek era	138th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4523
Bengali calendar	−820
Berber calendar	723
Buddhist calendar	317
Burmese calendar	−865
Byzantine calendar	5281–5282
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2469 or 2409     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2470 or 2410
Coptic calendar	−511 – −510
Discordian calendar	939
Ethiopian calendar	−235 – −234
Hebrew calendar	3533–3534
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−171 – −170
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2874–2875
Holocene calendar	9773
Iranian calendar	849 BP – 848 BP
Islamic calendar	875 BH – 874 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2106
Minguo calendar	2139 before ROC 民前2139年
Seleucid era	84/85 AG
Thai solar calendar	315–316

Year 228 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ruga and Verrucosus (or, less frequently, year 526 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 228 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Carthage

• The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca is killed in a battle in Hispania, ending his lengthy campaign to conquer the Iberian Peninsula for Carthage. In eight years, by force of arms and diplomacy, he had secured an extensive territory in the Iberian Peninsula, but his death in battle prevents him from completing the conquest. Command of his army in the Iberian Peninsula passes to his son-in-law Hasdrubal.
• Hasdrubal makes immediate policy changes, emphasizing the use of diplomatic rather than military methods for expanding Carthaginian Hispania and dealing with Rome. He founds Carthago Nova or New Carthage (modern Cartagena) as his capital city.

Asia Minor

• King Attalus I Soter of Pergamum defeats Antiochus Hierax (brother of the Seleucid king Seleucus II) in three battles and thereby gains control over all the Seleucid domains in Anatolia except Cilicia in the southeast.

Greece

• The Illyrian Queen Teuta's governor, Demetrius of Pharos has little alternative but to surrender to the overwhelming Roman force. In return, the Romans award him a considerable part of Teuta's holdings to counter-balance the power of Teuta. Meanwhile, the Roman army lands farther north at Apollonia. The combined Roman army and fleet proceed northward together, subduing one town after another and besieging Shkodra, the Illyrian capital.
• Archidamus V, brother of the murdered Spartan King Agis IV, is called back to Sparta by the Agiad King Cleomenes III, who has no counterpart on the throne by then. However, Archidamus V is assassinated shortly after returning.

Deaths

• Hamilcar Barca, Carthaginian general who has assumed command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily during the last years of the First Punic War with Rome, helped Carthage win the Mercenary War and brought extensive territory in the Iberian Peninsula under Carthaginian control (b. c. 270 BC)
• Archidamus V, king of Sparta of the Eurypontid line

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