225 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	250s BC  240s BC  230s BC  – 220s BC –  210s BC  200s BC  190s BC
Years:	228 BC 227 BC 226 BC – 225 BC – 224 BC 223 BC 222 BC

225 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	225 BC CCXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	529
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 99
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 22
Ancient Greek era	138th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4526
Bengali calendar	−817
Berber calendar	726
Buddhist calendar	320
Burmese calendar	−862
Byzantine calendar	5284–5285
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2472 or 2412     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2473 or 2413
Coptic calendar	−508 – −507
Discordian calendar	942
Ethiopian calendar	−232 – −231
Hebrew calendar	3536–3537
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−168 – −167
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2877–2878
Holocene calendar	9776
Iranian calendar	846 BP – 845 BP
Islamic calendar	872 BH – 871 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2109
Minguo calendar	2136 before ROC 民前2136年
Seleucid era	87/88 AG
Thai solar calendar	318–319

Year 225 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Papus and Regulus (or, less frequently, year 529 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 225 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

Roman Republic

• A coalition of Cisalpine Gallic tribes (Taurini, Taurisces, Insubres, Lingones, Salasses, Agones, and Boii), reinforced by large numbers of Transalpine adventurers called Gaesatae (Gaesati), invade Italy. Avoiding the Romans at Ariminum, the Gauls cross the Apennines into Etruria, plunder the country.
• To meet this invasion, the Romans call on the Insubres' enemies, the Adriatic Veneti, the Patavini, and the Cenomani, who rapidly mobilise defensive forces. These armies are placed under the command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Papus and Gaius Atilius Regulus. After the Battle of Faesulae (near Montepulciano) between the Gauls and a Roman army in which the Romans lose many men, the combined Roman forces succeed in outmaneuvering the Gauls and force the invaders towards the coast of Tuscany.

Seleucid Empire

• Seleucus III takes up the task of reconquering Pergamum in Anatolia from Attalus. However, Andromachus, the first general whom he sends, is decisively defeated and captured by Attalus.

China

• The state of Qin conquers the state of Wei.

Deaths

• Seleucus II Callinicus, king of the Seleucid Empire (246-225 BC)