253 BC

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Year of the Earth Monkey戊申( at the beginning of the year fire - sheep丁未)

Syria: 59/60 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• First Punic War: Roman plundering expedition against the African coast. In a storm go again 150 ships lost.
• Conclusion of peace in the Second Syrian War between Egypt under Ptolemy II and the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus II Antiochus married Ptolemy's daughter Berenice the Younger and repudiates his former wife Laodice.

Religion

• 253 BC: Buddhist council at Pataliputra under the patronage of King Ashoka. This leads to the cleavage in the Theravada ( doctrine of the elders ) who accept the formulated as a book Kathāvatthu Council decision, and their opponents ( Mahasanghika ).

Born

• Philopoemen, a Greek military commander († 183/182 BC)

• Year ( 3rd century BC)
• 253 BC