266 BC Chr.
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| 266 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 278/279 (southern Buddhism); 277/278 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 40th (41st) cycle , year of the wood-sheep 乙未 ( at the beginning of the year wood-horse 甲午) |
| Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 128th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3495/96 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CDLXXXVIII (488) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 45/46 (turn of the year April); Syria: 46/47 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Politics and world events
Eastern Mediterranean
- After the death of Mithridates I , the founder of the Pontus Empire , Ariobarzanes succeeds the throne.
- Antigonus II Gonatas , king of Macedon , crushes a rebellion of Galatian mercenaries.
Western Mediterranean
- Rome subjugates the Sarsinati, a northern Umbrian tribe that is native to Sarsina near Rimini . The victorious consuls hold a triumphal procession in Rome. Calabria and the Messapians finally come under Roman suzerainty.
Disasters
- Plague epidemic in Rome .
Died
- Mithridates I , King of Pontus
- 266/265 BC BC : Polemon of Athens , Greek philosopher