201 BC Facts for Kids

Millennium:	1st millennium 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:	204 BC 203 BC 202 BC – 201 BC – 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC

201 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

201 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	201 BC CC BC
Ab urbe condita	553
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 123
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 3
Ancient Greek era	144th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4550
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−793
Berber calendar	750
Buddhist calendar	344
Burmese calendar	−838
Byzantine calendar	5308–5309
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2496 or 2436 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2497 or 2437
Coptic calendar	−484 – −483
Discordian calendar	966
Ethiopian calendar	−208 – −207
Hebrew calendar	3560–3561
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−144 – −143
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2900–2901
Holocene calendar	9800
Iranian calendar	822 BP – 821 BP
Islamic calendar	847 BH – 846 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2133
Minguo calendar	2112 before ROC 民前2112年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1668
Seleucid era	111/112 AG
Thai solar calendar	342–343
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) −74 or −455 or −1227 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) −73 or −454 or −1226

The Roman Republic in 201 BC (in light green)

Year 201 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

On Hannibal's advice, Carthage asks for peace with the Romans. This ends the Second Punic War. Carthage is made a client state of Rome.
After peace with Rome, Hannibal is elected as suffet, or chief magistrate, of Carthage. The office was insignificant in Carthaginian politics, but Hannibal makes it powerful.

Philip V of Macedon captures Samos and the Egyptian fleet stationed there. He then makes war on Chios to the north.
Rhodes and its allies Pergamum, Cyzicus, and Byzantium combine their fleets and defeat Philip V in the Battle of Chios. His flagship is trapped and rammed by two enemy ships.
The Spartan king, Nabis, once more invades and captures Messene. The Spartans leave when the Achaean League army of Philopoemen helps. Nabis' forces are defeated at Tegea by Philopoemen.