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Year of The Water Monkey壬申( at the beginning of the year metal sheep辛未)

Syria: 23/24 ( the year in October )

Events

  • After the death of Agathocles Hicetas takes control in Syracuse. Some of the Mamertines, mercenaries in the service of Agathocles, draw after his death to Messina, where they are rapidly gaining in influence.
  • I. Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated Pantauchos, the commander of the Macedonian king Demetrius I Poliorketes, where Pyrrhus makes 5,000 prisoners. Then penetrates Pyrrhus before to Edessa, but then again expelled from Macedonia.

Died

  • Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse ( * 361/360 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 310s BC 300s BC (decade) 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 299 BC 293 BC 285 BC 279 BC Agathocles of Syracuse Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Hicetas (tyrant of Syracuse) Epirus (ancient state) Demetrius I of Macedon
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