270 BC

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Year of the Metal Hare辛卯(at the beginning of Metal Tiger庚寅)

Syria: 42/43 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • The Romans overwhelm Rhegium in the breakaway Legio Campana, who has assumed the rule in the city, and make Rhegium to the Roman allies.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • The Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas besieged the Greek city of Megara. To enable the war elephants in Gonatas ' army into panic spread the inhabitants countless pigs with pitch and set them on fire to. Gonatas must withdraw.

Science and Technology

  • The management of the Library of Alexandria passes from Zenodotos of Ephesus on Apollonius of Rhodes.
  • 270 BC: Aristarchus of Samos first time describes a heliocentric worldview. Then the sun is at the center of the universe, the earth moves. Aristarchus is also making a first estimate of the sizes and distances of and between the sun, moon and earth.
  • 270 BC: Arcesilaus took over the management of the Platonic Academy in Crates of Athens. With him the turn of the Academy to skepticism and thus the transition from the older to the Middle Academy begins.
  • 270 BC: After the death of Epicurus Hermachos passes his school.

Born

Died

  • Arsinoe II, Egyptian queen as the wife of Ptolemy II (c. 316 BC)
  • 270 BC: Epicurus, Greek philosopher (c. 341 BC)
  • 270 BC: Pyrrho of Elis, Greek philosopher (c. 360 BC )
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