Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) // Events Invasion of the Celts into Ireland Battle of the Allia and subsequent Gaulish sack of Rome 383 BCE Second Buddhist Councel at Vesali. ... // Events The first two Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome over dominance in western Mediterranean Rome conquers Spain Gaulish migration to Macedonia, Thrace and Galatia 281 BCE Antiochus I Soter, on the assassination of his father Seleucus becomes emperor of the Seleucid empire. ... (3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) // Events 175 BCE - Antiochus IV Epiphanes, took possession of the Syrian throne, at the murder of his brother Seleucus IV Philopator, which rightly belonged to his nephew Demetrius I Soter. ...

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Events

• First Punic War: The Romans capture Panormus in northern Sicily, but lost Agrigentum to the Carthaginian.

Births The First Punic War was fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 264 to 241 BC. It was the first of three major wars between the two powers for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... (This article is about Palermo in Sicily. ... Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... Map of central Mediterranean Sea, showing location of Agrigentum (modern Agrigento). ... This article is about the ancient city-state of Carthage in North Africa. ...

Titus Marcious

Deaths