292 BC

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Year of the Earth Snake己巳( at the beginning of the year Earth Dragon龙 辰)

Syria: 20/21 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean

• Demetrius I Poliorketes, king of Macedonia, subjecting the rebellious Thebes.
• Lysimachus, king of Thrace, comes at a campaign on the Danube in the captivity of the king getic Dromichaetes. This treated him obliging and let him be free soon thereafter, so as not to jeopardize the relations between the two empires. Dromichaetes then married a daughter of Lysimachus.
• Antigonus II Gonatas, son and general of Demetrius I tried in vain to use the captivity of Lysimachus to a Macedonian invasion of Thrace; he is thrown back.

Western Mediterranean

• The Romans appointed Appius Claudius Caecus dictator. The Samnites, although militarily defeated practically afford in the mountains for a long time delaying tactics.

Culture

• The Colossus of Rhodes is completed ( suspected; Construction 304 BC)

Died

• 292/291 BC: Menander, Greek poet (* 342/341 BC)

• Year ( 3rd century BC)
• 292 BC