238 BC Chr.
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 Arsakes I , ruler of the Parthians , completes the conquest of the Seleucid province of Parthia . |
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| 238 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 306/307 (southern Buddhism); 305/306 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 40th (41st) cycle , year of the water-pig 癸亥 ( at the beginning of the year water-dog 壬戌) |
| Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 135th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3523/24 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DXVI (516) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 73/74 (turn of the year April); Syria: 74/75 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Politics and world events
Eastern Mediterranean
- Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt introduces a leap day for every fourth calendar year with his canopic decree . The leap day is the sixth Epagomen day at the end of the year. After some time, however, this regulation is abolished again by the politically strengthened priesthood. This (sensible) regulation was only taken up again by Sosigenes from Alexandria and used for the ("Julian") calendar reform of Gaius Julius Caesar in 46 BC. . Chr harnessed. The Canopus Decree is also the oldest surviving bilingual Greek-Egyptian text ( bilingual ).
- Demetrios II , King of Macedonia , marries Pythia, the daughter of King Alexander of Epiros .
- Aratos of Sicyon arranges an alliance between the Achaean and Aetolian leagues against Macedonia.
Western Mediterranean
- Rome uses the 241 BC A mercenary revolt broke out in the Carthaginian Empire for intervention: Carthaginian mercenaries on Sardinia and Corsica ask the Romans for support; both islands then become Roman and 227 BC. BC administered as the province of Sardinia et Corsica . The Tyrrhenian Sea becomes Mare Nostrum .
- First Roman campaign against the Ligurians .
- In Africa the Carthaginian Hanno the Great succeeds in overthrowing the mercenary uprising near Utica .
Asia
- Arsakes I , ruler of the Parthians , completes the conquest of the Seleucid province of Parthia and declares his independence from the Seleucid Empire .
Culture and religion
- A temple is dedicated to the goddess Flora in Rome .
Born
- Philip V , King of Macedonia († 179 BC )
- Massinissa , King of Numidia († 149 BC )
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