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Year '''227 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Regulus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 527 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 227 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Illyria ====
* [[Teuta|Queen Teuta]] of [[Illyria]] finally surrenders to [[Roman Republic|Roman]] forces<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elsie |first=Robert |title=The Early History of Albania |url=http://www.elsie.de/pdf/articles/A2015EarlyHistoryAlbania.pdf |access-date=November 29, 2024}}</ref> and is forced by the Romans to accept an ignominious peace. The Romans allow her to continue her reign but restrict her to a narrow region around the Illyrian capital, [[Shkodër, Albania|Shkodra]], [[:wikt:deprive|deprive]] her of all her other territory, and forbid her to sail an armed ship below [[Lissus (Illyria)|Lissus]] just south of the capital. They also require her to pay an annual [[tribute]] and to acknowledge the final authority of Rome.

==== Greece ====
* The [[Macedon]]ian regent, [[Antigonus III Doson|Antigonus III]], marries the former king [[Demetrius II of Macedon|Demetrius II's]] widow, Phthia, and assumes the crown thus deposing the young [[Philip V of Macedon|Philip V]].
* The [[Sparta]]n King [[Cleomenes III]] imposes reforms on his kingdom which include the cancelling of debts, providing land for 4,000 [[Citizenship|citizens]], and restoring the training of youth in the [[martial arts]]. The Ephorate, five elected magistrates who, with the King, form the main executive body of the state, is abolished (four of the five [[ephors]] being executed); the powers of the [[Gerousia]], the oligarchic council of elders, is curtailed; and the {{Transliteration|grc|patronomoi}} (the board of six elders) is introduced. Cleomenes' changes are designed to make the monarchy supreme and re-create a society of aristocrats, while neglecting Sparta's [[helots]] (serfs) and [[perioikoi]] (free but non-citizen inhabitants). Eighty opponents of the reforms are exiled, while his brother [[Eucleidas]] is installed as co-ruler in the place of the murdered [[Archidamus V]].
* Cleomenes III defeats the [[Achaean League|Achaeans]] under [[Aratus of Sicyon]] at Mount Lycaeum and at Ladoceia near [[Megalopolis, Greece|Megalopolis]].

==== Roman Republic ====
* [[Sardinia]] and [[Corsica]] are made a combined province. Rome appoints, and in the future annually elects, two [[praetors]] (with autocratic consular powers) for this province and for [[Sicily]].
* [[Gaius Flaminius (consul 223 BC)|Gaius Flaminius]] becomes Rome's first governor of [[Sicily]].

==== Seleucid Empire ====
* [[Antiochus Hierax]] tries to raise revolts against his brother [[Seleucus II Callinicus|Seleucus II]] in [[Syria]] and the east of the [[Seleucid]] kingdom. However, he is captured and exiled to [[Thrace]], where he lives as a virtual prisoner.

==== China ====
* The [[Qin (state)|Qin]] generals [[Wang Jian (Qin)|Wang Jian]], [[Li Xin (Qin)|Li Xin]] and [[Wang Ben]] invade the [[State of Yan]] in vengeance for an assassination attempt against the king of Qin, [[Ying Zheng]], that had been organized by [[Crown Prince Dan]].
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== Births ==
* [[Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (consul 191 BC)|Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica]], [[Roman consul]] and general

== Deaths ==
* [[Huan Yi]], Chinese general of the [[Qin (state)|Qin State]] ([[Warring States period|Warring States Period]])
* [[Jing Ke]], Chinese retainer and [[Assassination|assassin]] of the [[Yan (state)|Yan State]]
* [[Lydiadas of Megalopolis]], Greek [[tyrant]] and general (''[[strategos]]'')

== References ==
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