285 BC

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Year of the Fire Rat丙子( at the beginning of the year Wood Pig乙亥)

Syria: 27/28 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Regimes of

  • Ptolemy I Soter, king of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Mitkönigs from. This marries Arsinoe I, daughter of the Thracian king Lysimachus. Ptolemy II 's older brother, Ptolemy Keraunos, flees from Egypt to Lysimachus.
  • Lysimachus sells Pyrrhus I of Macedon and making itself the sole ruler.

Western Mediterranean

  • Appius Claudius Caecus is appointed by the Romans again dictator.
  • The Celtic senones cross the Apennines; at Arezzo defeating a Roman army under Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Accomodations. 282 BC to the beginning of the permanent Roman -Celtic war.
  • Rome an alliance with Thurii, which is beset by Lucanians and Bruttians. Thereupon Lucanians and breeding animals of the anti-Roman party approach to the Samnites and at Taranto.

Died

  • 285 BC: Dikaiarchos, Greek polymath
  • Year ( 3rd century BC)
  • 285 BC
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