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Pyrrhus goes on his campaign to Sicily . | |
278 BC In other calendars | |
Buddhist calendar | 266/267 (southern Buddhism); 265/266 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 40th (41st) cycle , year of the water sheep 癸未 ( at the beginning of the year water horse 壬午) |
Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 125th Olympiad |
Jewish calendar | 3483/84 |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita CDLXXVI (476) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 33/34 (turn of April); Syria: 34/35 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Eastern Mediterranean
- The Northern League , consisting of Bithynia under King Nicomedes I , the Greek cities on the Black Sea coast and the Empire of Pontus , offer the Galatians who invaded Asia Minor (with the tribes of the Tecto sagas , Tolistobogier and Trokmer ) themselves in the landscape then named after them Galatia to settle in the Anatolian highlands around Ankara and Gordion in order to undertake raids against the Seleucid Empire from there.
- Antigonus II. Gonatas and Antiochus I make peace.
- Arsinoë II , sister of the Egyptian king Ptolemy II , ensures that his wife Arsinoë I is convicted and banished for alleged conspiracy; Arsinoë II then married Ptolemy himself, taking up the ancient Egyptian tradition of sibling marriages of the pharaohs .
Western Mediterranean
- Syracuse , which is attacked by Carthage , calls on Pyrrhus of Epirus, who then interrupts the costly war against the Romans and moves to Sicily . At the same time, Carthage allies itself with Rome and sends an auxiliary fleet under Mago to Ostia . The Romans gain ground in southern Italy through victories over the Lucanians, Samnites and Bruttians.
- Roman troops, sent to Rhegium to protect the city, rise up against the local population and establish their own rule.
Empire of China
Born
- Demetrios II , King of Macedonia († 229 BC )