275 BC

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Year of the Fire Dog丙戌( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster乙酉)

Syria: 37/38 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • After the departure of Pyrrhus from Sicily is appointed in Syracuse Hieron II as military commander.
  • Battle of Beneventum between Pyrrhus and Rome. After this battle Pyrrhus must retire to Epirus. Taranto is thus fend for themselves against the Romans and takes peace negotiations. The site of the battle was called until then Maleventum and has now been renamed by the Romans in Beneventum. On the triumphal procession in Rome elephants are presented in the city for the first time.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • 275 BC: Eudamidas II becomes King of Sparta as the successor of Archidamus IV

Asia

  • Most of the inhabitants of the ancient city of Babylon will be settled in the near Seleucia.
  • 275 BC: Antiochus I makes his eldest son Seleucus to co-regent and regent of the eastern parts of the country.

Born

  • 275 BC Fabius Cunctator, Roman general and politician ( † 203 BC)

Died

  • Demochares, Athenian orator and statesman (c. 355 BC)
  • 276/75 BC: Port Crane, Greek philosopher
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 300s BC (decade) 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 240s BC 285 BC 279 BC 271 BC 265 BC Pyrrhic War Battle of Beneventum (275 BC) Pyrrhus of Epirus Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Epirus (ancient state) Eudamidas II.
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