257 BC
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Year of the Wood Dragon甲辰( at the beginning of the year, water - hare癸卯)
Syria: 55/56 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- First Punic War: naval victory of the Romans under Marcus Atilius Regulus over Carthage in the Battle of Tyndaris ( Northwest Sicily).
- C. Atilius is making raids on the Aeolian Islands and Malta.
Nature and Environment
- April 3: Total eclipse in southern Gaul and Tuscany.
Born
- Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar († 180 BC)
- Year ( 3rd century BC)
- 257 BC