205 BC

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[edit] Events

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[edit] Rome

• Second Punic War:
  • Carthaginians under Mago Barca land in Liguria, capturing Genoa and Savona.
  • Scipio Africanus Major is elected consul, and departs to Sicily to prepare the invasion of Africa
  • Quintus Pleminius captures Locri in Italy, across the Strait of Messina, Hannibal's attempt to recapture the town was foiled by the appeared of Scipio's army.
  • Hannibal erects a bilingual Punic/Greek inscription describing his accomplisments, in the temple of Juno Lacinia near Croton.
  • Scipio sent Gaius Laelius to Africa to prepare the way for his later invasion.

[edit] Greece

• Philip V of Macedon negotiates the Peace of Phoenice, ending the First Macedonian War.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Zhang Han, general of the Qin Dynasty