18 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (3)
Since Xianyang was too narrow, they began building the court palace in the Shanglin Park south of the Wei River, first raising the front hall of Epang, and conscripted more than seven hundred thousand convicts for the Epang Palace and Mount Li works. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷006 秦始皇本紀)
When Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng fled, the Xianyang Confucians were investigated; more than four hundred and sixty who violated the ban were buried alive in pits at Xianyang, and Fusu, who had remonstrated, was sent to Meng Tian at Shangjun. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷006 秦始皇本紀)
Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng slandered the First Emperor and fled; the emperor had the Xianyang scholars questioned by censors, and more than four hundred sixty who had violated the ban were identified. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷007 (원문 단락 #544, -212년))
More than 10,000 of the enemy died and 7,000 were taken prisoner, and all the wagons and cattle were captured (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 25.14)
On news of the capture of Nasos, of a district of Achradina, and of Moericus's defection, Marcellus had the retreat sounded (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 25.30)
It is said that Marcellus looked down on the beautiful city and wept in pity at the fate about to befall it (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Marcellus 19.1)
The Roman governor Tiberius Gracchus falls into an ambush (Polybius, Histories 8.1)
Young men of Tarentum pledge themselves to Hannibal (Polybius, Histories 8.27)