16 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (11)
Han sent Lu Jia to enfeoff Zhao Tuo as King of Nanyue, giving him a seal and tallies so that envoys could pass. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 外紀卷之二 「乙巳十二年（公元前一九六年）。漢」)
Han Xin, Marquis of Huaiyin, was accused of plotting rebellion at Chang'an, and his three clans were exterminated. (Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals 漢書卷001 漢高祖十一年正月)
Revolt of Qing Bu, King of Huainan: he killed Liu Jia, King of Jing, crossed the Huai and attacked Chu. (Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals 漢書卷001 漢高祖十一年七月)
On his return he stayed at Pei and, with his old neighbors, held a wine feast, composed and sang 'The Song of the Great Wind'; he made Pei his tangmu fief and exempted Feng from taxes. (Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals 漢書卷001 漢高祖十二年十月)
A Han cavalry general defeated Qing Bu's army on both banks of the Tao River and pursued and killed Qing Bu at Poyang. (Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals 漢書卷001 漢高祖十二年(月 불명))
On his way back from Huainan he passed through Lu and sacrificed to Confucius with the great offering of ox, sheep and pig. (Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals 漢書卷001 漢高祖十二年十一月)
Gaozu besieged Donghuan, held by Chen Xi's general Zhao Li, for over a month and forced its surrender; he beheaded soldiers who had insulted him and made his son Heng King of Dai, with his capital at Jinyang. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷008 高祖本紀)
Marquis Huaiyin, Han Xin, was accused of plotting rebellion in Guanzhong, and his three generations of relatives were destroyed. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷008 高祖本紀)
Antiochus assembled his naval and land forces at Madytus in the Chersonese and completely invested the city that had closed its gates (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 33.38)