238 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:	241 BC 240 BC 239 BC – 238 BC – 237 BC 236 BC 235 BC

Events

• In the Battle of Utica, the loyal Carthaginian troops of Hamilcar Barca defeat rebels.
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus attacks Carthaginian rebels on the island of Sardinia, and he makes it into a Roman province.
• The Parthian kingdom breaks away to become independent of the Seleucid Empire.