Editing 213 BC

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Year '''213 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 Maximus and Gracchus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 541 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 213 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 ===
==== Seleucid Empire ====
* In [[military alliance|alliance]] with [[Attalus I Soter|Attalus I]] of [[Pergamum]], [[Antiochus III the Great|Antiochus III]] finally captures the rebel king of [[Anatolia]], [[Achaeus (general)|Achaeus]], in his capital, [[Sardis]], after a siege of two years. Antiochus III then has Achaeus executed.

==== Roman Republic ====
* [[Casilinum]] and [[Arpi]] are recovered by the [[Roman Republic|Romans]] from [[Hannibal]].

==== Sicily ====
* [[Archimedes]]'s war machines repel the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] [[army]] that is invading [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]].

==== China ====
* Emperor [[Qin Shi Huang]] and Prime Minister [[Li Si]] order all [[Confucianism|Confucian]] writings destroyed in the [[burning of books and burying of scholars]].</onlyinclude>

== Deaths ==
* [[Aratus of Sicyon]], Greek statesman, general and advocate of Greek unity, who, for many years, has been the leader of the [[Achaean League]] (b. [[271 BC]])
* [[Achaeus (general)|Achaeus]], [[Seleucid]] general and later separatist ruler of most of [[Anatolia]] until his defeat and execution by the Seleucid king [[Antiochus III the Great|Antiochus III]]

== References ==
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