201 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	230s BC  220s BC  210s BC  – 200s BC –  190s BC  180s BC  170s BC
Years:	204 BC 203 BC 202 BC – 201 BC – 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC

201 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

The Roman Republic in 201 BC (in light green)

201 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Carthage

• On Hannibal's advice, Carthage asks for peace with the Romans. This ends the Second Punic War. Carthage is made a client state of Rome.
• After peace with Rome, Hannibal is elected as suffet, or chief magistrate, of Carthage. The office was insignificant in Carthaginian politics, but Hannibal makes it powerful.

Roman Republic

• The Romans remove the Carthaginians from Malta.
• In Rome, land is given to veterans of the Second Punic War.

Greece

• Philip V of Macedon captures Samos and the Egyptian fleet stationed there. He then makes war on Chios to the north.
• Rhodes and its allies Pergamum, Cyzicus, and Byzantium combine their fleets and defeat Philip V in the Battle of Chios. His flagship is trapped and rammed by two enemy ships.
• The Spartan king, Nabis, once more invades and captures Messene. The Spartans leave when the Achaean League army of Philopoemen helps. Nabis' forces are defeated at Tegea by Philopoemen.

China

• The construction of Nanchang begins.

Deaths

• Gnaeus Naevius, Latin epic poet and dramatist (b. c. 264 BC)