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Year '''202 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Nero''' (or, less frequently, '''year 552 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 202 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Carthage ====
* Accused of [[treason]] by the [[Carthage|Carthaginians]] after being defeated by the [[Roman Republic|Romans]] at the [[Battle of the Great Plains]], [[Hasdrubal Gisco]] commits suicide to avoid being [[Lynching|lynched]] by a Carthaginian mob.
* [[October 19]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Zama]] (130 kilometers south-west of Carthage) ends the [[Second Punic War]] and largely destroys the power of Carthage. Roman and [[Numidia]]n forces under the leadership of the Roman general [[Scipio Africanus|Publius Cornelius Scipio]] and his Numidian ally, [[Masinissa]], defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of [[Hannibal]] and force Carthage to capitulate. Hannibal loses 20,000 men in the defeat, but he is able to escape Masinissa's pursuit.<ref name=leglay>{{cite book | title=A History of Rome | edition=Second | first1=Marcel | last1=LeGlay | first2=Jean-Louis | last2=Voisin | first3=Yann | last3=Le Bohec | page=79 | publisher=Blackwell | place=Malden, Massachusetts | year=2001 | isbn=0-631-21858-0}}</ref>

==== Roman Republic ====
* Following the [[Battle of Zama]], the Roman general [[Scipio Africanus|Publius Cornelius Scipio]] gains the cognomen "Africanus" in honour of his feats in North Africa against Carthage.

==== Egypt ====
* The [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] [[regent]] and [[chief minister]], [[Sosibius]], retires and [[Agathocles of Egypt|Agathocles]], another member of the ruling [[clique]], becomes [[Ptolemy V Epiphanes|Ptolemy V]]'s guardian.
*[[Agathocles of Egypt|Agathocles]] rule provokes Tlepolemus, the governor of [[Pelusium]] (Egypt's eastern frontier city), into action. Tlepolemus marches on [[Alexandria]], where his supporters rouse a mob, compelling Agathocles to resign.
* The Egyptian boy king, [[Ptolemy V Epiphanes|Ptolemy V]], is encouraged by a mob clamouring for revenge against the murderers of his mother [[Arsinoe III of Egypt|Arsinoe III]] to agree to Agathocles being killed. As a result, the mob searches out and butchers Agathocles and his family. Tlepolemus takes Agathocles' place as regent. However, he soon proves to be incompetent and is removed.
* During this period of confusion and change amongst Egypt’s leadership, armies under the [[Seleucid]] king, [[Antiochus III the Great|Antiochus III]], make serious inroads into the Egyptian territories in [[Coele-Syria]].

==== China ====
* [[Liu Bang]] and [[Han Xin]] defeat the remaining loyalists of Xiang Yu.
* [[28 February]]: Liu Bang declares himself Supreme Emperor of China, officially beginning the [[Han dynasty]].
* Liu Bang appoints Han Xin the king of [[Chu (state)|Chu]], but he deposes him later in the year after accusing him of disloyalty.
* The construction of the new Chinese capital [[Chang'an]] begins.
* Liu Bang gives the area of today's [[Fujian]] province to Wuzhu as his kingdom. Wuzhu starts the construction of his own capital Ye ([[Fuzhou]]).
* The construction of [[Changsha]] begins.
* The armies of Han, led by [[Fan Kuai]], suppress a rebellion by the [[Yan Kingdom (Han dynasty)|State of Yan]], defeating its king [[Zang Tu]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Hing Ming|last= Hung|title=The Road to the Throne: How Liu Bang Founded China's Han Dynasty|year= 2011|isbn=978-0875868387|pages= 163–186}}</ref>
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== Deaths ==
* [[Hasdrubal Gisco]], [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] general who has fought against Rome in [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberia]] and North Africa during the [[Second Punic War]], customarily identified as the son of Gisco (suicide)
* [[Xiang Yu]], rebel leader against the [[Qin dynasty]] and nemesis of [[Liu Bang]] in the [[Chu–Han Contention]] (b. [[232 BC]])

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