254 BC

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Year of the Fire Sheep丁未( at the beginning of the year Fire Horse丙午)

Syria: 58/59 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

• Palermo is conquered by the Romans under the consuls Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina and Aulus Atilius Caiatinus.
• The Romans besiege the Carthaginian base Drepanum. Several Sicilian cities run over to the Romans.
• Tiberius Coruncanius will be the first plebeian Roman Pontifex Maximus.

Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East

• Leonidas king of Sparta II is the successor to the Areus II
• In Bithynia Ziaelas, a son of Nicomedes I, the rule takes over.

• 255/254 BC: Ariarathes III. is co-ruler of his father Ariamnes in Cappadocia.

Imperial China

• At the time of the Warring States conquered and destroyed the Chinese state Wei the state Wey.

Religion and Culture

• Atilius inaugurated in Rome Fides a temple.

Born

• Cleomenes III. , King of Sparta († 219 BC)
• 254 BC: Plautus, Roman comic poet († 184 BC)
• 254 BC: The Quintus Fabius Pictor, a Roman historian ( † about 201 BC)

Died

• Areus II, King of Sparta

• Year ( 3rd century BC)
• 254 BC