208 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:	211 BC 210 BC 209 BC - 208 BC - 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC

208 BC by topic
Politics
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**208 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	208 BC
Ab urbe condita	546
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2051 – -2050
Berber calendar	743
Buddhist calendar	337
Burmese calendar	-845
Chinese calendar	2429/2489 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2430/2490 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-491 – -490
Ethiopian calendar	-215 – -214
Hebrew calendar	3553 – 3554
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-152 – -151
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2894 – 2895
Holocene calendar	9793
Iranian calendar	829 BP – 828 BP
Islamic calendar	854 BH – 853 BH
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 453 (皇紀453年)
Korean calendar	2126
Thai solar calendar	336
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Events

The Romans under Publius Cornelius Scipio defeat the Carthaginians under their commander Hasdrubal Barca at Baecula (Bailen) in Baetica. As a result, Hasdrubal Barca decides to cross the Pyrenees with his remaining troops into Transalpine Gaul, with the intention of joining his brother Hannibal in Italy.
The Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus is killed in battle while fighting Hannibal inconclusively near Venusia, Apulia.
Hannibal destroys a Roman force engaged in the siege of Locri Epizephyri.

Antiochus III advances into Bactria, which is ruled by the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus I, and again meets with success. After resisting a siege of his capital Bactra (Balkh) by the Seleucids, Euthydemus obtains an honourable peace by which Antiochus promises Euthydemus' son Demetrius the hand of one of his daughters.

The Chinese general Zhang Han of the Qin Dynasty pacifies a peasant rebellion led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and then lays siege to the rebel city of Julu.

Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman general who has captured Syracuse during the Second Punic War and has become known as "the sword of Rome" (b. 268 BC)
Li Si, Chinese philosopher and politician (assassinated) (b. 280 BC)ast:208 edC