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Year of the Earth Ox己丑(at the beginning of Earth Rat戊子)

Syria: 40/41 ( the year in October )

Events

Eastern Mediterranean

  • King Pyrrhus of Epirus I. incident on the Peloponnese, where he is first engaged in clashes in Sparta, but repulsed at the gates of the city. He then turns to Argos where it had also come to internal disputes. Pyrrhus killed in street fighting in Argos, allegedly by the stone's throw of a woman. In Epirus Alexander II becomes his successor.

Western Mediterranean

  • A Carthaginian fleet sailed into the Bay of Taranto
  • After the surrender of the breeding animals and the transfer of Tarentum to Rome by the commander Milo it comes to the conclusion of peace in Tarentine War: Tarentum and the other cities of southern Italy close, as well as the Samnites, breeding animals and Lucanians, abandoned by Pyrrhus, the superior Romans as allies of. The walls of Tarentum be looped. From the city rich treasures are brought to Rome, and Greek scholars, among them Livius Andronicus, pull from Taranto to Rome.
  • Construction of the aqueduct Anio Vetus; it supplies the city of Rome with water from the river Anio (see 269 BC).

Asia

Born

  • Berenike II, wife of Egyptian King Ptolemy III. († 221 BC)

Died

  • Pyrrhus I, King of Epirus (* 319/318 BC)
  • Ptolemy (son of Pyrrhus I. ) (* 295/94 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 300s BC (decade) 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 240s BC 282 BC 276 BC 262 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Alexander II of Epirus Bruttii Lucani (ancient people) Aniene Berenice II of Egypt Ptolemy (son of Pyrrhus)
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