262 BC

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Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • June: Rome is sending four legions under the consuls Lucius Postumius Megellus and Quintus Mamilius Vitulus to Sicily, where they begin the siege of Agrigentum, which is defended by a Carthaginian garrison under Hannibal Gisco.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • I. Eumenes of Pergamum wins Sardis against the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus I. He consolidates its independent position.
  • The Spartan king Akrotatos falls in battle against Aristodemus of Megalopolis. Its at this point not yet born son Areus II after his birth, his successor under the tutelage of his uncle Leonidas.

Born

Died

  • Akrotatos, King of Sparta
  • Year ( 3rd century BC)
  • 262 BC
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 272 BC 266 BC 258 BC 252 BC Agrigento Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Eumenes I. Antiochus I Soter Megalopolis, Greece Areus II. Leonidas II.
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