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Year of the Earth Horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)

Syria: 9/10 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Asia

  • Seleucus I admits the Indian rulers Chandragupta Maurya to the area east of Kabul and Balochistan and in return receives 500 war elephants.
  • Seleucus I founded the ancient city Osroe new under the name of Edessa. In the same year the city of Dura Europos on the Euphrates produced.

Europe

  • Demetrius I Poliorketes undertakes a campaign against the Macedonian rule in the northern Peloponnese and captured Corinth, Bura, Orchomenus and other cities.
  • Rome Taranto concludes with a contract in which Rome obliged the harbor of Tarentum not to run.

Nature and Environment

  • April 2 - Total Solar Eclipse in Egypt, Palestine and Syria.
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