What happened in 219 BC?
Siege of Saguntum, Fourth Syrian War and Siege of Ambracia — among 7 events recorded in 219 BC.
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Wars & Conflicts 3
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Siege of Saguntum
219 BCE battle between the Carthaginians and the Saguntines in the Roman-allied town of Saguntum (in modern-day Sagunto, Spain), triggering the Second Punic War
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Fourth Syrian War
219-217 BCE war between the Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire
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Siege of Ambracia
219 BCE siege during the Social War
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People 3
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Asbyte died
Libyan princess in the Carthaginian army, according to Silius Italicus's poem Punica
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Caecilius Statius born
Born in Mediolanum. Roman comic poet (c. 220 BC – c. 166 BC).
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Cleomenes III died
Died in Alexandria. King of Sparta.
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