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Syria: 49/50 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • Rome is victorious consul Manius Valerius Maximus under the Corvinus Messala over Syracuse Hieron II, forcing to abandon its alliance with Carthage, instead he has to ally with Rome, which leaves him to southeastern Sicily Tauromenium.
  • Many Sicilian towns say himself from Carthage and the Romans to close. Thereupon the Carthaginians strengthen their occupation in Akragas.
  • Foundation of the Latin colony Aesernia (now Isernia) in the territory of the Samnites.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • After the death of his nephew Eumenes of Pergamum Philetairos is I., his successor; he makes himself from the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus I. independently. Under his government comes in Pergamum on the use of parchment.
  • Falls Alexander II of Epirus, as before his father Pyrrhus I, in Macedonia, in order to be used in place of Antiochus I King.

Born

  • Antigonus III. Doson, King of Macedon († 221 BC)

Died

  • Philetairos, governor of Pergamum (c. 343 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 273 BC 267 BC 259 BC 253 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla Eumenes I. Antiochus I Soter Pyrrhus of Epirus Antigonus III Doson
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