Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 300 B.C. through 251 B.C.
- -300 to -251
- Third Samnite War (-298 to -290); the Etruscans subjected
to Rome -295; Romans under Lucius Papirius Cursor defeat
Samnites at Aguilonia -293
- Siege of Athens by Demetrius I -295
- Romans defeated by the Senones, a Gaulish tribe, at
Arretium -289
- Full equality between patricians and plebeians in
Rome -287
- Demetrius I of Macedon, deposed by army revolt, is
replaced by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who is in turn
replaced by Alexander's former general Lysimachus
-287
- Ptolemy Soter abdicates -285 and is succeeded by his
son Ptolemy II Philadelphus (d. -247)
- Corsica captured by the Romans -283
- War between Tarentum and Rome (-282 to -272)
- Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, lands in Italy to aid
Tarentum, defeats Romans at Heraclea (-280) and at
Asculum (-279), but does not know how to exploit
his victories; defeated by the Romans at Beneventum,
he leaves Italy -275
- Antiochus I defeats the Gauls -275
- End of history of Babylon; the Babylonians reestablished
in the new city of Seleucia -275
- After the defeat of Tarentum, Rome conquers central and
southern Italy -272
- Romans continue the Via Appia form Capua to Tarentum
and Brundisium (c. -272)
- Athens taken by Antigonus II Gonatas -268
- Calabria conquered by the Romans -266
- The First Punic War (-264 to -241): Appius Claudius
Pulcher defeats Hiero of Syracuse at Messana -264;
the Roman fleet defeats Carthaginians at Ecnomus
-256; Regulus, attacking Carthage, is captured by
Xanthippus the Spartan -255; unsuccessful siege of
Lilybaeum by Romans -250; Hamilcar Barca takes command
of Carthaginian forces in Sicily -246; Hamilcar makes
peace with Rome; end of First Punic War -241
- Kingdom of Parthia founded by Arsaces -255
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