By place Hispania •
Second Punic War :* May/June –
Hannibal sets out with around 40,000 men and 50 elephants from
New Carthage (Cartagena, Spain) to the north of Spain and then crosses the Pyrenees where his army meets with stiff resistance from the Pyrenean tribes. This opposition and the desertion of some of his Spanish troops diminishes his numbers by half, but he reaches the river
Rhône facing little resistance from the tribes of southern
Gaul.
Roman Republic • Second Punic War :* In response to the threat of Hannibal the Romans assemble three armies: ::* The
consul prior,
Publius Cornelius Scipio, raises two
Roman legions and two Latin
alae for a total of 22,000 infantry and 2,200 cavalry. He is also assigned 60 warships and hundreds of transports. Scipio receives the
Iberian Peninsula as his area of operations (his imperium). ::* The consul posterior,
Tiberius Sempronius Longus, also raises two Roman legions and two Latin alae for a total of 24,000 infantry and 2,400 cavalry. He gathers a fleet of 180 warships and hundreds of transports. Longus receives
Sicily and
Africa as his area of operation (his imperium) and manages to carry out the
capture of Malta from the Carthaginians. He was to invade Africa and attack
Carthage directly
Seleucid Empire •
Fourth Syrian War :* Negotiations between the new Egyptian King
Ptolemy IV and the Seleucid King
Antiochus III collapse, and Antiochus III renews his advance, overrunning Ptolemy's forward defences, and gaining territory in
Lebanon,
Palestine and
Phoenicia. == Births ==