278 BC

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Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)

Syria: 34/35 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean

• The Northern League, consisting of Bithynia, the Greek cities on the Black Sea coast and the Kingdom of Pontos, offer the penetrated into Asia Minor Galatians ( with the tribes of Tectosages, Tolistoagier and Trocmi ) to, in the then named after them region of Galatia in the Anatolian highlands around Ankara Gordion and settle down to do from there, pillaging against the Seleucid Empire.
• Antigonus II Gonatas and Antiochos I make peace.
• Arsinoe II, sister of the Egyptian king Ptolemy II, ensures is that his wife Arsinoe I. condemned and banished for alleged conspiracy; Arsinoe II married then even Ptolemy, the ancient Egyptian tradition of sibling marriages of the Pharaohs receptive.

Western Mediterranean

• Syracuse, which is attacked by Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus calls for help, which then interrupts the costly war against the Romans and moved to Sicily. At the same time Carthage allied with Rome and sent a flotilla under Mago to Ostia. The Romans win by beating the Lucanians, Samnites and animal breeding in southern Italy on the ground.
• Roman troops that had been sent to Rhegium to protect the city rise against the local population and build its own rule.

Imperial China

• The State of Chu loses the territory of today's Hubei Province to Qin.

Born

• Demetrius II, king of Macedonia

Died

• Qu Yuan, Chinese poet (c. 340 BC)

• Year ( 3rd century BC)
• 278 BC