290 BC

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Year of the Metal sheep辛未( at the beginning of the year metal horse庚午)

Syria: 22/23 ( the year in October )

Events

  • Re unsuccessful uprising against Thebes, Demetrius I Poliorketes.
  • Demetrius I can hold the Pythian Games in Athens, instead of - as usual - in Delphi.
  • The Samnites ( including cities such as Pompeii and Herculaneum ) are obliged under the third Samnitenkrieg (298 BC -290 BC) for military service. System of the colony Hadria near the Adriatic coast.
  • Victory of the Romans under Dentatus over the Sabines, get their cities Cures, Reate, Amiternum Nursia and then the Roman citizenship without voting rights.

Died

  • Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher and poet (c. 365 BC)
  • 290 BC: Mencius, Chinese philosopher (c. 370 BC )
  • Year ( 3rd century BC)
  • 290 BC
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