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Year of the Water Pig癸亥( at the beginning of the year Water Dog壬戌)

Syria: 74/75 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Ptolemy III. Euergetes of Egypt leads with his Canopus decree a one leap day for every fourth calendar year. The leap is the sixth Epagomen tag at the end of the year. After some time, this scheme will be abolished by the politically strengthened priesthood again. Only from Sosigenes from Alexandria this ( reasonable ) scheme has been taken up again and made ​​usable for ( " Julian " ) calendar reform of Julius Caesar in 46 BC. The Canopus Decree also provides the oldest surviving bilingual Greco- Egyptian text ( Bilingue ) dar.
  • Demetrius II, king of Macedonia, marries Pythia, the daughter of King Alexander of Epirus.
  • Aratus of Sicyon arranged an alliance between the Achaean and Aetolian the league against Macedon.

Western Mediterranean

  • Rome uses the 241 BC revolt erupted mercenaries in the Carthaginian Empire to intervention: Carthaginian mercenaries in Sardinia and Corsica ask the Romans for assistance; both islands are then Roman and 227 BC administered as a province Sardinia et Corsica. The Tyrrhenian Sea is to the Mare Nostrum.
  • First Campaign of the Romans against the Ligurians.
  • In Africa the Carthaginian Hanno the Great succeeds in Utica the defeat of the mercenary uprising.

Asia

  • Arsaces I, ruler of the Parthian, completed the conquest of the Seleucid province of Parthia and declared its independence from the Seleucid Empire.

Culture and Religion

  • In Rome, the goddess Flora is a temple dedicated.

Born

  • Philip V of Macedonia, King of Macedonia († 179 BC)
  • Masinissa, King of Numidia († 149 BC)
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