270 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

270 BC Chr.
270 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	274/275 (southern Buddhism); 273/274 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	40th (41st) cycle , year of the metal rabbit 辛卯 ( at the beginning of the year metal tiger 庚寅)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 127th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3491/92
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDLXXXIV (484)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 41/42 (turn of the year April); Syria: 42/43 (turn of the year October)

Events

Politics and world events

Western Mediterranean

• The Romans overwhelmed in Rhegium the renegade Legio Campana , who founded the new state in the city, and make Rhegium to the Roman allies.

Eastern Mediterranean

• The Macedonian King Antigonos II Gonatas besieges the Greek city of Megara . In order to panic the war elephants in Gonatas' army, the residents coat countless pigs with pitch and set them on fire. Gonatas must withdraw.

science and technology

• The management of the library of Alexandria passes from Zenodotus of Ephesus to Apollonios of Rhodes .

Aristarchus of Samos, monument at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• around 270 BC Chr .: Aristarchus of Samos describes a heliocentric worldview for the first time . According to this, the sun is in the center of space around which the earth moves. Aristarchus also makes a first estimate of the sizes and distances from or between the sun, moon and earth.
• around 270 BC Chr .: Arkesilaos takes over the management of the Platonic Academy after Krates of Athens . With him, the academy began to turn to skepticism and with it the transition from the older to the middle academy.
• around 270 BC Chr .: After the death of Epicurus , Hermarchos continues his school.

Born

• Hasdrubal , Carthaginian general († 221 BC )
• around 270 BC Chr .: Hamilkar Barkas , Carthaginian general († 229 BC )

Died

• Arsinoë II , Egyptian queen as the wife of Ptolemy II (* around 316 BC)
• around 270 BC Chr .: Epicurus , Greek philosopher (* around 341 BC)
• around 270 BC Chr .: Pyrrhon von Elis , Greek philosopher (* around 360 BC)

Web links

Commons : 270 BC Chr.  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Poisons and Insects: The Weapons of Mass Destruction of Antiquity. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , January 25, 2007, accessed June 22, 2010 .