201 BC

201 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	230s BC  220s BC  210s BC  – 200s BC –  190s BC  180s BC  170s BC
Years:	204 BC 203 BC 202 BC – 201 BC – 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC

201 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

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201 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	201 BC CC BC
Ab urbe condita	553
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 123
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 3
Ancient Greek era	144th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4550
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−793
Berber calendar	750
Buddhist calendar	344
Burmese calendar	−838
Byzantine calendar	5308–5309
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2496 or 2436     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2497 or 2437
Coptic calendar	−484 – −483
Discordian calendar	966
Ethiopian calendar	−208 – −207
Hebrew calendar	3560–3561
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−144 – −143
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2900–2901
Holocene calendar	9800
Iranian calendar	822 BP – 821 BP
Islamic calendar	847 BH – 846 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2133
Minguo calendar	2112 before ROC 民前2112年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1668
Seleucid era	111/112 AG
Thai solar calendar	342–343
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) −74 or −455 or −1227     — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) −73 or −454 or −1226

The Roman Republic in 201 BC (in light green)

Events

By place

Carthage

• On Hannibal's advice, Carthage asks for peace with the Romans. This ends the Second Punic War. Carthage is made a client state of Rome.
• After peace with Rome, Hannibal is elected as suffet, or chief magistrate, of Carthage. The office was insignificant in Carthaginian politics, but Hannibal makes it powerful.

Roman Republic

• The Romans remove the Carthaginians from Malta.
• In Rome, land is given to veterans of the Second Punic War.

Greece

• Philip V of Macedon captures Samos and the Egyptian fleet stationed there. He then makes war on Chios to the north.
• Rhodes and its allies Pergamum, Cyzicus, and Byzantium combine their fleets and defeat Philip V in the Battle of Chios. His flagship is trapped and rammed by two enemy ships.
• The Spartan king, Nabis, once more invades and captures Messene. The Spartans leave when the Achaean League army of Philopoemen helps. Nabis' forces are defeated at Tegea by Philopoemen.

China

• The construction of Nanchang begins.

Deaths

• Gnaeus Naevius, Latin epic poet and dramatist (b. c. 264 BC)