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Year '''232 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 Lepidus and Melleolus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 522 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 232 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]] ====
* The Seleucid king [[Seleucus II Callinicus]] undertakes an expedition into the interior of [[Iran]] to try to regain [[Parthia]], but his efforts come to nothing. According to some sources, he is even taken prisoner for several years by the Parthian king, [[Arsaces I of Parthia|Arsaces I]]. Other sources mention that he establishes a peace with Arsaces I by recognising his sovereignty over Parthia.

==== [[Roman Republic]] ====
* Despite the opposition of the [[Roman Senate]] and of his own father, the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] political leader [[Gaius Flaminius (consul 223 BC)|Gaius Flaminius]] wins the passage of a measure to distribute land among the plebeians. The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome (the Ager Gallicus) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen into ruin during the [[First Punic War]].

==== China ====
* The king of [[Qin (state)|Qin]], [[Ying Zheng]], invites Prince [[Han Fei]], a legalist philosopher and member of the [[Han (Warring States)|Han]] royal family, to the Qin court. However, at the instigation of [[Li Si]], he then has him imprisoned and executed as a threat to the state.
* The [[Zhao (state)|Zhao]] general [[Li Mu]] defeats the Qin army in the Battle of Fanwu.

=== By topic ===

==== Philosophy ====
* Following the death of his mentor, [[Cleanthes]] of [[Assos]], [[Chrysippus of Soli]] succeeds him as the third head of the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] school. The many writings of Chrysippus, about the Stoic doctrines, will later earn him the title of Second Founder of [[Stoicism]].
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== Births ==
* [[Xiang Yu]], [[China|Chinese]] rebel general against the [[Qin dynasty]], as well as the later nemesis of [[Liu Bang]] in the civil war of the [[Chu-Han contention]] (d. [[202 BC]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Ashoka the Great|Ashoka]], Indian emperor, who has ruled the [[Maurya Empire]] across the [[India]]n subcontinent from [[273 BC]] (b. [[304 BC]])
* [[Cleanthes]] of [[Assos]], [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosopher who has been the head of the Stoic school from [[263 BC]], after the death of [[Zeno of Citium]] (b. c. [[301 BC]])

== References ==
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