266 BC

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Year of wood sheep乙未( at the beginning of the year Wood Horse甲午)

Syria: 46/47 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean

  • After the death of Mithridates I, the founder of the kingdom of Pontus, Ariobarzanes follows on the throne.
  • Antigonus II Gonatas, king of Macedonia, knocks down a rebellion Galatian mercenaries.

Western Mediterranean

  • Rome subjecting the Sarsinaten, a Northumbrian strain, which is native to Sarsina at Rimini. The victorious consuls held in Rome from a triumphal procession. Calabria and the Messapians finally get under Roman suzerainty.

Disasters

  • Plague in Rome.

Died

  • Mithridates I, King of Pontus
  • 266/265 BC: Polemon of Athens, Greek philosopher
  • Year ( 3rd century BC)
  • 266 BC
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