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201 BC facts for kids
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| 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: | 204 BC 203 BC 202 BC – 201 BC – 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC |
| 201 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 201 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 553 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4550 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2044–-2043 |
| Bengali calendar | -793 |
| Berber calendar | 750 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 344 |
| Burmese calendar | -838 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5308–5309 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (2436/2496) — to —
庚子年(2437/2497) |
| Coptic calendar | -484–-483 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -208–-207 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3560–3561 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -144–-143 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2901–2902 |
| Holocene calendar | 9800 |
| Iranian calendar | 822 BP – 821 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 847 BH – 846 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2133 |
| Minguo calendar | 2112 before ROC 民前2112年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 343 |
Year 201 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
Events
By place
Carthage
- On Hannibal's advice, Carthage asks for peace with the Romans. This ends the Second Punic War. Carthage is made a client state of Rome.
- After peace with Rome, Hannibal is elected as suffet, or chief magistrate, of Carthage. The office was insignificant in Carthaginian politics, but Hannibal makes it powerful.
Roman Republic
- The Romans remove the Carthaginians from Malta.
- In Rome, land is given to veterans of the Second Punic War.
Greece
- Philip V of Macedon captures Samos and the Egyptian fleet stationed there. He then makes war on Chios to the north.
- Rhodes and its allies Pergamum, Cyzicus, and Byzantium combine their fleets and defeat Philip V in the Battle of Chios. His flagship is trapped and rammed by two enemy ships.
- The Spartan king, Nabis, once more invades and captures Messene. The Spartans leave when the Achaean League army of Philopoemen helps. Nabis' forces are defeated at Tegea by Philopoemen.
China
- The construction of Nanchang begins.
Deaths
- Gnaeus Naevius, Latin epic poet and dramatist (b. c. 264 BC)