250 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

250 BC Chr.
Selinunte is destroyed in the First Punic War .
250 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	294/295 (southern Buddhism); 293/294 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	40th (41st) cycle , year of the metal pig 辛亥 ( at the beginning of the year metal dog 庚戌)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 132nd Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3511/12
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DIV (504)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 61/62 (turn of the year April); Syria: 62/63 (turn of the year October)

Events

Politics and world events

Eastern Mediterranean

• After the death of King Magas of Cyrene , Demetrios the Fair , the half-brother of the Macedonian king Antigonos Gonatas , succeeds him.

Agron's realm

• Agron , son of Pleuratus, becomes king of the Illyrians .

• around 250 BC Chr .: Translation of the Septuagint into Greek
• around 250 BC Chr .: Creation of the Old Testament book of Kohelet

Western Mediterranean and rest of Europe

• Selinunte is destroyed in the First Punic War .
• The Romans besieged the Carthaginian base Lilybaeum both from the land side and through their navy.
• around 250 BC Chr .: The Celtic Parisii based on a Seine -Insel the fishing village Lutuhezi , nucleus of the later Paris .

Central Asia

Coin of Arsakes I.

• The Parthians start under their leader Arsaces I. attacks on the Persian territories of the Seleucid Empire (Fighting continues to 238 v. Chr. ).
• around 250 BC BC: Mithridates II succeeds his father Ariobarzanes as King of Pontus .

India

• around 250 BC Chr .: First mention of Mumbai as Heptanesia . It belongs to the Maurya empire of Ashoka .

Empire of China

• In the Chinese Empire Qin ruled after the death of Zhaoxiang first Xiaowen, who will be replaced after a few months of Zhuangxiang.
• The Chinese Chancellor Lü Buwei begins to record the philosophical work Lüshi chunqiu ( Spring and Autumn of Lü Buwei ).

Africa

painted ceramic vessel made of Meroe

• around 250 BC Chr .: Ergamenes (Arkamani) is the first of the Nubian kings to be buried in Meroe .

America

• around 250 BC BC: Settlement of Trinidad by farmers using ceramics.

science and technology

A typical Archimedean screw

• around 250 BC BC: Archimedes develops the Archimedean screw . He also discovered the principle of Archimedes ( " Eureka " -Anekdote).
• around 250 BC Chr .: Erasistratos examines the human brain and differentiates between the cerebrum ( cerebrum ) and the cerebellum ( cerebellum ).
• around 250 BC Chr .: Ktesibios constructs a water organ .

Culture

• around 250 BC BC: Creation of Liber Linteus, the oldest surviving text in the Etruscan language

Died

• around 250 BC Chr .: Magas , king of Cyrene
• around 250 BC Chr .: Timaeus of Tauromenion , Greek historian (* approx. 345 BC )
• around 250 BC Chr .: Ergamenes (Arkamani), king of Nubia