284 BC

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Syria: 28/29 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Victory of senonischen Celts, the Romans under Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Accomodations in Arretium; Caecilius falls in battle. The senones under their ruler Britomaris should also have killed Roman negotiator. Then pulls the Roman commander Manius Curius Dentatus against the senones, which he defeated in a battle.
  • Lysimachus lets his son Agathocles kill because it did want to poison him.

Science and Culture

  • Zenodotos is Director of the Library of Alexandria, possibly as a successor to the Ktesibios.

Born

  • By 284 BC. Ptolemy III, King of Egypt ( † about 221 BC)

Died

April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 310s BC 300s BC (decade) 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 294 BC 288 BC 274 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter Arezzo Agathocles (son of Lysimachus) Ctesibius Ptolemy III Euergetes
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