221 BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • Ptolemy III, King of Egypt, who has reunited Egypt and Cyrenaica and successfully waged the Third Syrian War against the Seleucid kingdom
  • Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca (assassinated)
  • Antigonus III Doson, King of Macedon from 227 BC (b. 263 BC)
  • Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica (in modern Libya), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt (b. c. 267 BC)
  • Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul and general during the First Punic War (b. c. 290 BC)

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