213 BC
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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
Decades: 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC - 210s BC - 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC
Years: 218 BC 217 BC 216 BC 215 BC 214 BC - 213 BC - 212 BC 211 BC 210 BC 209 BC 208 BC
Events
- Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China orders all Confucian writings destroyed.
- Second Punic War: Marcus Claudius Marcellus begins the siege of Syracuse
Births
Deaths
- Aratus of Sicyon
- Achaeus is brutally executed by Antiochus the Great
