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Year of the Metal Pig辛亥( at the beginning of the year metal dog庚戌)

Syria: 62/63 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean and the rest of Europe

  • Selinunte is destroyed in the First Punic War.
  • The Romans besiege the Carthaginian base Lilybaeum both by land and by their fleet.
  • 250 BC: The Celtic Parisii based on an island in the Seine fishing village Lutuhezi, nucleus of the later Paris.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • After the death of King Magas of Cyrene Demetrios, the Beautiful, the half-brother of the Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas, whose successor.
  • Agron, son of Pleuratus, is king of the Illyrians.
  • About 250 BC: the Septuagint translation into Greek.
  • Ecclesiastes emergence of the Old Testament book: about 250 BC.

Asia

  • The Parthians start under their leader Arsaces I. the attacks on the Persian territories of the Seleucid empire ( It will last until 238 BC).
  • In the Chinese Qin Empire ruled after the death of Zhaoxiang first Xiaowen, which will be replaced after a few months of Zhuangxiang.
  • The Chinese chancellor Lü Buwei begins with the records for the philosophical work Lüshi chunqiu ( Spring and Autumn of Lu Buwei )
  • 250 BC: Mithridates II succeeds his father as king of Pontus Ariobarzanes.
  • 250 BC: First mention of Mumbai as Heptanesia. It is part of the Mauryan Empire of Ashoka.

Africa

  • 250 BC: Ergamenes ( Arkamani ) is the first of the Nubian kings, which is buried in Meroe.

America

  • 250 BC: Trinidad colonization by ceramic farmers use.

Science and Technology

  • 250 BC: Archimedes developed the Archimedes screw. He also discovered the Archimedean principle ( " eureka" anecdote ).
  • 250 BC: Erasistratus studied the human brain and differs cerebrum (cerebrum ) and cerebellum ( cerebellum).

Culture

  • 250 BC: Emergence of the Liber Linteus, the oldest surviving text in the Etruscan language.

Died

  • 250 BC: Magas, King of Cyrene
  • About 250 BC: the Timaeus of Tauromenion, Greek historian ( * ca 345 BC)
  • 250 BC: Ergamenes ( Arkamani ), King of Nubia
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 240s BC 220s BC 260 BC 254 BC 246 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Marsala Parisii (Gaul) Demetrius the Fair Agron of Illyria Arsaces I of Parthia Qin (state) Mithridates II of Pontus Ariobarzanes of Pontus Maurya Empire Archimedes' principle Timaeus (historian)
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