200 BC

February 2011 -200 February 2024 200 thumb|550px|right|Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 200 BC. __NOTOC__ Year 200 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Maximus and Cotta (or, less frequently, year 554 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 200 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 Seleucid Empire Antiochus III's forces continue their invasion of Coele Syria and Palestine.2025-05-09 Seleucid empire Map, Rulers, Location, & Facts Britannica https://www.britannica.com/place/Seleucid-Empire 2025-06-21 www.britannica.com en Conquest of Armenia by the Seleucids.Garsoïan Nina Nina Garsoïan The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times St. Martin's Press 1997 0-312-10169-4 Hovannisian Richard G. Richard Hovannisian 1 New York 37–62 The Emergence of Armenia Greece Philip V of Macedon's fleet defeat the Rhodians at Lade. His forces then advance into Pergamum, plundering Pergamese territory and attacking cities in Caria.Frank William Walbank Philip V of Macedon Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1940 491231292 340 The Acarnanians, with Macedonian support, invade Attica, causing Athens, which has previously maintained its neutrality, to seek help from the enemies of Philip. Attalus I of Pergamum, who is with his fleet at Aegina, receives an embassy from Athens asking him to come to the city for consultations. After he is told that Roman ambassadors are also in Athens, Attalus goes there in haste.February 2024 The Roman ambassador to Greece, Syria, and Egypt, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus delivers an ultimatum to Philip V warning Macedonia not to make war on any Greek state. Philip decides to reject the Roman ultimatum and the Romans declare war on Macedon, thus starting the Second Macedonian War.February 2024 The Roman consul, Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus, asks Attalus I and his fleet to meet up with the Roman fleet off the Greek Aegean coast and they conduct a naval campaign against Philip V, harassing Macedonian possessions in and along the Aegean.February 2024 Roman Republic Bactria Euthydemus I of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom dies and is succeeded by his son Demetrius I of Bactria (approximate date).Demetrius Seleucid Ruler, Conqueror, Indian Campaigns Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Demetrius-king-of-Bactria 2025-06-20 www.britannica.com en South America The city of Tiwanaku is founded as a village near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia (approximate date).Tiwanaku Bolivia, Culture, Map, & Facts Britannica https://www.britannica.com/place/Tiwanaku 2025-03-22 www.britannica.com en The Early Horizon period in the Andes comes to an end as the Chavin culture vanishes and is succeeded by the Nazca culture (approximate date).February 2024 China Chinese create a padding material.February 2024 The construction of the Wei-Yang Palace in the Han dynasty capital (Chang'an) begins.Weiyang Palace History Research Starters EBSCO Research https://www.ebsco.com/ 2026-06-23 EBSCO en The Han emperor Gaozu is defeated by the Xiongnu, led by Modu Chanyu, in the Battle of Baideng.February 2024 By topic Art Alexander the Great, head from a Hellenistic copy of a statue, possibly after a 4th century BC original by Lysippos is made. It is now kept at the Archeological Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.February 2024 Lost-wax casting is known in China and Mesopotamia (approximate date). Roman artists begin attempting to produce the illusion of thin slabs of colored marble covering the walls, which are set off by actual architectural moldings and columns, in private houses. These attempts last for 120 years.February 2024 Astronomy The first good measurement of the distance between Earth and the Sun is made by Eratosthenes (approximate date). By studying lunar eclipses, his result is roughly 150 000 000 km. The currently accepted value is 149 597 870 691 ± 30 metres.February 2024 In fiction This year is used as the fourth time world (Amazon Jungle) in the video game The Lost Vikings 2.February 2024 The Tribunal in Marianne Curley's Guardians of Time Trilogy is set up near Athens.February 2024 Young Aphrodites (an award-winning drama film about a nomadic group of shepherds) is set in 200 BC.February 2024 Births Chao Cuo, Chinese political advisor and official (approximate date) Gongsun Hong, Chinese statesman and chancellor (d. 121 BC) Jia Yi, Chinese statesman and poet (d. 170 BC) Wen, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (d. 157 BC) Deaths Abdissares, king of Sophene (Armenian Kingdom) from 212 BC Euthydemus I, king of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom from 223 BC (approximate date) (b. c. 260 BC) References