232 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	260s BC  250s BC  240s BC  – 230s BC –  220s BC  210s BC  200s BC
Years:	235 BC 234 BC 233 BC – 232 BC – 231 BC 230 BC 229 BC

232 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	232 BC CCXXXI BC
Ab urbe condita	522
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 92
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 15
Ancient Greek era	137th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4519
Bengali calendar	−824
Berber calendar	719
Buddhist calendar	313
Burmese calendar	−869
Byzantine calendar	5277–5278
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 2465 or 2405     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 2466 or 2406
Coptic calendar	−515 – −514
Discordian calendar	935
Ethiopian calendar	−239 – −238
Hebrew calendar	3529–3530
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−175 – −174
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2870–2871
Holocene calendar	9769
Iranian calendar	853 BP – 852 BP
Islamic calendar	879 BH – 878 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2102
Minguo calendar	2143 before ROC 民前2143年
Seleucid era	80/81 AG
Thai solar calendar	311–312

Year 232 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Melleolus (or, less frequently, year 522 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 232 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

By place

Seleucid Empire

• The Seleucid king Seleucus II Callinicus undertakes an expedition into the interior of Iran to try to regain Parthia, but his efforts come to nothing. According to some sources, he is even taken prisoner for several years by the Parthian king, Arsaces I. Other sources mention that he establishes a peace with Arsaces I by recognising his sovereignty over Parthia.

Roman Republic

• Despite the opposition of the Roman Senate and of his own father, the Roman political leader Gaius Flaminius Nepos wins the passage of a measure to distribute land among the plebeians. The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome (the Ager Gallicus) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen into ruin during the First Punic War.

By topic

Philosophy

• Following the death of his mentor, Cleanthes of Assos, Chrysippus of Soli succeeds him as the third head of the Stoic school. The many writings of Chrysippus, about the Stoic doctrines, will later earn him the title of Second Founder of Stoicism.

Births

• Xiang Yu, Chinese rebel general against the Qin Dynasty, as well as the later nemesis of Liu Bang in the civil war of the Chu-Han contention (d. 202 BC)

Deaths

• Ashoka, Indian emperor, who has ruled the Maurya Empire across the Indian subcontinent from 273 BC (b. 304 BC)
• Cleanthes of Assos, Stoic philosopher who has been the head of the Stoic school from 263 BC, after the death of Zeno of Citium (b. c. 301 BC)