245 BC
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Year of the Fire Dragon丙辰( at the beginning of the year wood rabbit乙卯)
Syria: 67/68 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Eastern Mediterranean
- Aratus of Sicyon is strategist of the Achaean League. The federal government then performs a campaign against Locris.
- The Boeotians under their commander Aboiokritos subject to the Aetolian Bund at Chaeronea; Aboiokritus is killed.
- Alexandros of Corinth is poisoned; Antigonus II Gonatas wins Corinth back by widow married Alexander Nicaea with his successor Demetrius. He stationed a garrison under Persaios.
- Ptolemy III. , King of Egypt, returns from his campaign Syria in the Third Syrian War to Egypt, there prostrate social unrest.
- Seleucus II wins Mesopotamia from the Egyptians back.
Western Mediterranean
- Establishment of a Latin colony in Fregenae ( at Ostia).
Science and Technology
- Eratosthenes follows Apollonius of Rhodes in the office of the Head of the Library of Alexandria.
Born
Died
- Aratus of Soli, Greek author (c. 310 BC)
- Alexandros of Corinth, the Macedonian governor in Greece
- Year ( 3rd century BC)
- 245 BC