265 BC

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Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)

Syria: 47/48 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Areus I, King of Sparta, falls in Chremonidean war against Macedonia at Corinth. His successor will Akrotatos. After this defeat Sparta Athens gets into trouble.
  • Antigonus II Gonatas of Macedon conquered Megara.

Western Mediterranean

  • Hiero II of Syracuse is once again returning to the Mamertines, a Campanian mercenaries who holds the Sicilian city of Messana occupied.

Asia

  • The Chinese state Qin attacked Han, which then allied himself with the powerful northern state of Zhao.
  • 265 BC: Ashoka, ruler of the Indian Mauryan Empire, which extends over almost the whole of India, begins a very bloody campaign against Kalinga (now Orissa ).

Science

  • The Greek astronomer Timocharis of Alexandria observed the planet Mercury.

Born

  • Seleucus II, King of the Seleucid Empire († 226 BC)
  • 265 BC: Gnaeus Naevius, Roman poet († probably after 200 BC)

Died

  • Areus I, King of Sparta
  • 266/265 BC: Polemon of Athens, Greek philosopher
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 275 BC 269 BC 261 BC 255 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Areus I. Messina Maurya Empire Kalinga (India) Seleucus II Callinicus Polemon (scholarch)
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