211 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	240s BC 230s BC 220s BC – 210s BC – 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC
Years:	214 BC 213 BC 212 BC – 211 BC – 210 BC 209 BC 208 BC

211 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**211 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	211 BC
Ab urbe condita	543
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2054 – -2053
Bengali calendar	-803
Berber calendar	740
Buddhist calendar	334
Burmese calendar	-848
Byzantine calendar	5298 – 5299
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2426/2486) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2427/2487)
Coptic calendar	-494 – -493
Ethiopian calendar	-218 – -217
Hebrew calendar	3550 – 3551
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-154 – -153
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2891 – 2892
Holocene calendar	9790
Iranian calendar	832 BP – 831 BP
Islamic calendar	858 BH – 857 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2123
Thai solar calendar	333

Events

Antiochus III's sister arranges for the removal of Armenia's king Xerxes, whom she has recently married. Antiochus III then divides the country into two satrapies.

The Carthaginian general Hasdrubal Barca returns to Spain after his victory over the rebellious Numidians. He then manages to turn the tide against the Romans in Spain, with the Roman generals Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus killed in separate battles—Publius on the upper Baetis (Guadalquivir) and Gnaeus in the hinterland of Carthago Nova (Cartagena). The Carthaginians recover all their territory south of the Ebro.

With the capture of Syracuse, the Romans are able to pacify all of Sicily.
The Romans besiege the town of Capua (which is allied with Hannibal). The town eventually falls to the Romans and its citizens are punished by them. The town's nobility are put to the sword, its territory is confiscated and its municipal organisation is dissolved.
Hannibal marches northwards on the city of Rome in a belated and unsuccessful effort to capture the city.
Rome faces the burdens of inflation and the danger of famine, caused by the disturbed conditions in Italy and Sicily and the withdrawal of so many men from farming. The situation is only relieved by an urgent appeal by the Romans to the King of Egypt, Ptolemy IV, from whom grain is purchased at three times the usual price.

The Roman commander Marcus Valerius Laevinus explores the possibility of an alliance with the Aetolian League as the Aetolians are once again ready to consider taking up arms against their traditional enemy, Macedonia. A treaty is signed to counter Philip V of Macedon who is allied to Hannibal. Under the treaty, the Aetolians are to conduct operations on land, the Romans at sea. Also, Rome will keep any slaves and other booty taken and Aetolia will receive control of any territory acquired.

Publius Cornelius Scipio, Roman general, consul in 218 BC and later proconsul during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, Roman general, statesman and brother of Publius Cornelius Scipio
Arsaces I, King of Parthia from 250 BC and son of Phriapites, a chief of the seminomadic Parni tribe from the Caspian steppes