282 BC

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Year of the Earth Hare己卯( at the beginning of the year Earth Tiger戊寅)

Syria: 30/31 ( the year in October )

Events

283/282 BC: The Roman Empire conquered the Etruscans and the Gauls ( senones and Boii ) in the Battle of the Vadimonischen lake. The Romans occupy then the senonische area and establish the colony of Sena Gallica.
Roman victory over the Etruscans at Populonia. The Etruscans are obligated to military service
After the fighting with the Gauls, Etruscans and the Romans, the city of Thurii come to the rescue and defeat near under their consul Gaius Fabricius Luscinus the Lucanians whose commander Statius Statilius is captured. Rome laid garrisons in the Greek cities of Locri, Croton, Thurii, and Rhegium.
Autumn - A Roman fleet of ten ships passing the harbor of Taranto, even though it was banned under BC a Roman Tarentum contract from the year 303 the Romans to send ships to the Gulf of Taranto. The Tarentines then destroy the Roman ships and conquer in winter 282/81 Thurii, whose Roman garrison is sold. Beginning of Tarentine war.

Philetairos, governor of Lysimachus in Pergamon, the city passed to Seleucus, Lysimachus of declared war to conquer the small Asian possessions.

Ptolemy II held in honor of his late father Ptolemy I in Alexandria for the first time the style similar to the Panhellenic Games Ptolemies. The games where participants arriving from all over Greece, will soon reach an Olympics comparable importance in the Greek world.

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