- 227 BC
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Queen Teuta ofIllyria finally surrenders to Roman forces and is forced by the Romans to accept an ignominious peace. The Romans allow her to continue her reign but restrict her to a narrow region around the Illyrian capital, Shkodra, deprive her of all her other territory, and forbid her to sail an armed ship belowLissus just south of the capital. They also require her to pay an annualtribute and to acknowledge the final authority of Rome.
* TheMacedon ian regent, Antigonus III, marries the former king Demetrius II's widow, Phthia, and assumes the crown thus deposing the young Philip V.
* TheSparta n KingCleomenes III imposes reforms on his kingdom which include the cancelling of debts, providing land for 4,000 citizens, and restoring the training of youth in the martial arts. The Ephorate, five elected magistrates who, with the King, form the main executive body of the state, is abolished (four of the fiveephors being executed); the powers of theGerousia , the oligarchic council of elders, is curtailed; and the patronomoi (the board of six elders) is introduced. Cleomenes' changes are designed to make the monarchy supreme and re-create a society of aristocrats, while neglecting Sparta'shelots (serfs) andperioikoi (free but non-citizen inhabitants). Eighty opponents of the reforms are exiled, while his brotherEucleidas is installed as co-ruler in the place of the murderedArchidamus V .
* Cleomenes III defeats the Achaeans underAratus of Sicyon at Mount Lycaeum and at Ladoceia near Megalopolis.Roman Republic
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Sardinia andCorsica are made a combined province. Rome appoints, and in the future annually elects, twopraetors (with autocratic consular powers) for this province and forSicily .
*Gaius Flaminius Nepos becomes Rome's first governor ofSicily .eleucid Empire
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Antiochus Hierax tries to raise revolts against his brother Seleucus II inSyria and the east of theSeleucid kingdom. However, he is captured and exiled toThrace , where he lives as a virtual prisoner.Births
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