271 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

271 BC Chr.
The Cascata delle Marmore is created by diverting the Velino river near Terni .
271 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	273/274 (southern Buddhism); 272/273 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	40th (41st) cycle , year of the metal tiger 庚寅 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Ox 己丑)
Greek calendar	1./2. Year of the 127th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3490/91
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDLXXXIII (483)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 40/41 (turn of April); Syria: 41/42 (turn of the year October)

Events

Politics and world events

• End of the First Syrian War between the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus I and Egypt under Ptolemy II. Syria with Damascus initially remains under Egyptian rule, but subsequently numerous other wars over Syria are waged between the two kingdoms.
• Aristotimos, tyrant of Elis , is overthrown and murdered.

Science, technology, culture

• The Roman consul Manius Curius Dentatus had the waters of the Velino river diverted at Terni ; this creates the 165 m high Cascata delle Marmore waterfall .

Born

• Aratos of Sicyon , leader of the Achaean League († 213 BC )

Died

• around 271 BC Chr .: Marcus Valerius Corvus , Roman consul and dictator (* around 370 BC )