The world in 219 BC — what happened that year

18 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

The First Emperor toured the eastern commanderies and counties, climbed Mount Zouyi, set up a stele, and discussed the feng-shan sacrifice with the Confucian scholars of Lu. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷006 秦始皇本紀)
He climbed Mount Tai, set up a stele, and performed the feng sacrifice; caught in a storm, he rested under a tree and enfeoffed the tree as a Grand Officer Five. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷006 秦始皇本紀)
He followed the Bohai eastward, passed Huang and Chui, went to the tip of Chengshan, climbed Zhifu, and set up a stele. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷006 秦始皇本紀)
He climbed Langya and stayed three months, moved thirty thousand households to the foot of Langya Terrace and built the terrace; Xu Fu asked to take thousands of boys and girls to sea to seek immortals. (Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals 史記卷006 秦始皇本紀)
The First Emperor toured the eastern commanderies, climbed Mount Yi to erect a monument of merit, and gathered seventy Lu scholars to discuss the feng sacrifice at the foot of Mount Tai; their opinions diverged, and he dismissed the scholars. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑卷007 (원문 단락 #527, -219년))

While this was going on in Rome, the siege of Saguntum was pressed with every effort (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 21.7)
Armed columns enter the city through the gap in the fallen wall (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 21.11)
Alco, unknown to the Saguntines, crosses over to Hannibal at night to try negotiating (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 21.12)
Hannibal leaves New Carthage, besieges and takes Saguntum (Polybius, Histories 3.17)
Demetrius reinforces the defenses of Dimale (Polybius, Histories 3.18)
The Illyrian war ends — Pharos is taken (Polybius, Histories 3.19)
An Aetolian night raid on Aegira is repulsed (Polybius, Histories 4.58)
Philip passes through Thessaly and reaches Ambracia in Epirus (Polybius, Histories 4.61)
Scopas invades Macedonia and destroys Dium (Polybius, Histories 4.62)
Philip besieges and takes Ambracus (Polybius, Histories 4.63)