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Events

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

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

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Zhang Han , general of the Qin Dynasty