229 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:	232 BC 231 BC 230 BC – 229 BC – 228 BC 227 BC 226 BC

229 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	229 BC
Ab urbe condita	525
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 95
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 18
Ancient Greek era	137th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4522
Bengali calendar	−821
Berber calendar	722
Buddhist calendar	316
Burmese calendar	−866
Byzantine calendar	5280–5281
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2468 or 2408     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2469 or 2409
Coptic calendar	−512 – −511
Discordian calendar	938
Ethiopian calendar	−236 – −235
Hebrew calendar	3532–3533
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−172 – −171
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2873–2874
Holocene calendar	9772
Iranian calendar	850 BP – 849 BP
Islamic calendar	876 BH – 875 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2105
Minguo calendar	2140 before ROC 民前2140年
Seleucid era	83/84 AG
Thai solar calendar	314–315

Year 229 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Albinus and Centumalus (or, less frequently, year 525 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 229 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

Anatolia

• Attalus I of Pergamon wins the Battle of the Harpasus in western Anatolia.

Greece

• The First Illyrian War starts when the Roman Senate dispatches an army under the command of the consuls Lucius Postumius Albinus and Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus to Illyria. Rome forces the withdrawal of Illyrian garrisons in the Greek cities of Epidamnus, Apollonia, Corcyra and Pharos and establishes a protectorate over these Greek towns.
• The Illyrian tribe of the Ardiaei is subdued by the Romans.
• The King of Macedonia, Demetrius II, dies. His nephew, Antigonus III comes to the Macedonian throne as regent for his half-cousin and the future king Philip V, who is only ten years old.
• Concerned at Rome's expansion, Antigonus III pursues a policy of befriending the Illyrians, even though the Greeks in the region support Rome in quelling the Illyrian pirates.
• The involvement of Rome in Illyria leads to the establishment of friendly relations between Rome and the enemies of Macedonia: the Aetolian League and Achaean League, which approve the suppression of Illyrian piracy.
• Aratus of Sicyon brings Argos into the Achaean League and then helps liberate Athens. This brings Aratus into conflict with Sparta.

China

• The state of Qin conquers the state of Zhao.

Births

• Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Roman general, consul and politician (d. 160 BC)
• Qin Er Shi, Emperor of Qin China (d. 207 BC)

Deaths

• Demetrius II, King of Macedonia from 239 BC (b. c. 276 BC)
• Margos of Keryneia, Strategos and Navarch of the Achaean League

References