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230 BC

The Barcid war

After some small battles the Massaliot League forces manages to conquer the lands of Llercavones and Edetani tribes. Hearing rumours that the league will march against Barcid kingdom( and loose the precious silver mines of Mastia/ Carthago Nova) Hasdrubal the Fair allied himself with Celtiberi and Carpetani tribes and marched against Massaliot league.




By place

Rome

• With Roman merchants being killed by Samnite pirates, envoys are sent by Rome to the Samnites . After the Roman ambassadors lucius Coruncanius and Fabius Rullianus are murdered by Samnite soldiers after causing offence to king Gavius Egnatius, Roman forces mobilised with the aim of humbling Gavius Egnatius.

Illyria

• King Agron of Illyria dies. Pinnes, the son of Agron and Agron's first wife Triteuta, officially succeeds his father as king, but the kingdom is effectively ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta (Tefta), who expels the Greeks from the Illyrian coast and then launches Illyrian pirate ships into the Ionian Sea, preying on Greek shipping. She continues her husband's policy of attacking cities on the west coast of Greece and practising large-scale piracy in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas.

Egypt

• The Temple of Horus is built by King Ptolemy III.

India

• Jalauka to deal with Sophagasenus asked the help of Diodotus of the Diodotian Kingdom( Greco-Bactrian)