He was Roman Consul five times ( 233 BC, 228 BC, 215 BC, 214 BC and 209 BC ) and was twice Dictator, in 221 and again in 217 BC.

In the Spring of 217 BC, Hannibal decided to find a more reliable base of operations farther south.

Battle of Lake Trasimene, 217 BC. From the Department of History, United States Military Academy

Arriving in Etruria in the spring of 217 BC, Hannibal decided to lure the main Roman army under Flaminius, into a pitched battle, by devastating the region Flaminius had been sent to protect.

* 217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.

Although initially unsuccessful in the Fourth Syrian War against Egypt, which led to a defeat at the Battle of Raphia ( 217 BC ), Antiochus would prove himself to be the greatest of the Seleucid rulers after Seleucus I himself.

After 217 BC, he also traveled to Iberia.

An exception was in 217 BC, when a Carthaginian fleet of 70 quinqueremes was intercepted off the coast of Etruria by a Roman fleet of 120 quinqueremes and retreated without giving battle.

* 217 BC

*** Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, Roman consul 217 BC ( killed in the Battle of Cannae )

*** Marcus Minucius Rufus, Roman consul 221 BC, Master of the Horse 217 BC ( killed in the Battle of Cannae )

* 175 BC – Seleucus IV Philopator, king of the Seleucid dynasty, who has ruled from 187 BC ( b. c. 217 BC )

** Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, Roman consul 217 BC ( killed in the Battle of Cannae )

** Marcus Minucius Rufus, Roman consul 221 BC, Master of the Horse 217 BC ( killed in the Battle of Cannae )

Year 217 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Pompeianus ( 170 – between 212 and 217 ), died without issue

* Homer, Iliad II, 819 – 21 ; V, 217 – 575 ; XIII, 455 – 544 ; XX, 75 – 352 ;

* 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated ( and succeeded ) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

Medical Hypotheses, 72, 217 – 219.

* 217 – The papacy of Zephyrinus ends.

** ( 1878 June ), " The Order of Nature ", Popular Science Monthly, v. 13, pp. 203 – 217. Internet Archive Eprint.

* Mark A. Satterthwaite, " Strategy-proofness and Arrow's Conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions ", Journal of Economic Theory 10 ( April 1975 ), 187 – 217.

17, No. 3 ( Autumn, 1958 ), pp. 217 – 231

It has an area of 16, 372 square kilometres ( 6, 321 sq mi ), and is elongated northwest-southeast, 350 kilometres ( 217 mi ) in length and 50 to 70 kilometres ( 31 – 44 mi ) wide.

76, No. 299 ( Apr., 1961 ), pp. 217 – 253 in JSTOR

* 1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.

It may be significant that Galen lived at about the same time ( 129 – 199 / 217 AD ) that Roman law changed from the agnate to the cognate system of relationships.

New York: Braziller, 1981. pp. 217 – 42.

* December 8 – The Typaldos Line's ferry Heraklion sinks in rough seas, in the Aegean Sea near Crete, leaving 217 dead.

* 24, 217 km < sup > 2 </ sup > – New Hampshire

* pp. 217 – 9.

* April 4 – Lucius Septimius Bassianus ( Caracalla ), Roman Emperor ( d. 217 )

In 2007 Jack Sheldon rejected Edmonds's calculations, suggesting that although German casualties 1 June – 10 November were 217, 194 were available in Volume III of the Sanitätsbericht, ( Medical Report Concerning the German Army 1914 – 1918 ( 1934 )) Edmonds may not have included them as they did not fit his case.

Michel Balard, Benjamin Z. Kedar and Jonathan Riley-Smith ( Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001 ), pp. 217 – 229.

The campaigns of 219 BC and 218 BC carried the Seleucid armies almost to the confines of Ptolemaic Kingdom, but in 217 BC Ptolemy IV defeated Antiochus at the Battle of Raphia.

Saturnalia underwent a major reform in 217 BC, after the Battle of Lake Trasimene, when the Romans suffered one of their most crushing defeats by Carthage during the Second Punic War.

This initially unexpected and humiliating defeat for Rome was followed by numerous campaigns over the next two centuries entailing many notable engagements such as: the Battle of Cilician Gates, Mount Gindarus, Mark Antony's Parthian Campaign and finally culminating in the bloody Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD, which resulted in a slight Parthian victory and Emperor Macrinus being forced to concede peace with Parthia.

Zhang Liao was most noted for his pivotal role in the Battle of Xiaoyao Ford in 217, where he successfully defended the city of Hefei against the advances of Sun Quan's massive army.

After the Battle of Lake Trasimene ( 217 BC ) Spoletium was attacked by Hannibal, who was repulsed by the inhabitants During the Second Punic War the city was a useful ally to Rome.

The Seleucids advanced on Egypt, but were defeated at the Battle of Raphia ( Rafah ) in 217.

The Battle of Lake Trasimene ( June 21, 217 BC, April on the Julian calendar ) was a major battle in the Second Punic War.

But after the Battle of Trasimene in 217 BC, when Rome itself was threatened by Hannibal, a Dictator was again needed, and Fabius Maximus was appointed to the office.

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Chen Wu was slain by Cao Cao's general Pang De during the Battle of Xiaoyao Ford in 217.

From the Piazza Garibaldi ( still referred to by the local population by its older name, Piazza Carbonaia ) is a fine prospect of Lake Trasimeno, scene of Hannibal's ambush of the Roman army in 217 BC ( Battle of Lake Trasimene ).

* Battle of Raphia, also known as Battle of Gaza, fought between Ptolemy IV of Egypt and Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom in 217 BC

In 720 BCE it was the site of the Assyrian king Sargon II's victory over the Egyptians, and in 217 BC the Battle of Raphia was fought between the victorious Ptolemy IV and Antiochus III.

The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was a battle fought on 22 June 217 BC near modern Rafah between the forces of Ptolemy IV Philopator, king of Egypt and Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom during the Syrian Wars.

The Battle of Lake Trasimeno occurred on the northern shore of the lake in April 217 B. C.