276 BC

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Year of the Wood Rooster乙酉( at the beginning of the year Wood Monkey甲申)

Syria: 36/37 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • Pyrrhus makes Syracuse a fleet against Carthage together, but to ask the Greek cities of southern Italy increasingly against him. In the fight against Mamertines in Rhegium he is wounded. In Locri, he plundered the treasury to replenish his war chest, the Syracusan politician Thoenon it can kill. Despite his victories against the Carthaginians in Sicily, he is forced to abandon the siege Lilybaeums and return to the Italian mainland. His fleet is thereby attacked by Carthaginian ships. Meanwhile the Romans take their winter quarters in the territory of the Samnites.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Antigonus II Gonatas, king of Macedonia, conquered the city Kassandreia and can kill the local tyrants Apollodorus.
  • Is Aigion capital of the Achaean League.
  • 276 BC: Cyrene becomes independent of Egypt under Magas. He married a daughter of Antiochus I Seleukidenkönigs

Disasters

  • Outbreak of plague in Rome.

Born

  • 276 BC: Chrysippus of Soli, Greek philosopher ( † about 204 BC)
  • 276 BC: Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician († 202 BC)
  • 276 BC: Euphorion (Author ), Greek poet († 225 BC)

Died

  • 276 or 275 BC: Port Crane, Greek philosopher
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