279 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

279 BC Chr.
Pyrrhus wins a Pyrrhic victory over the Romans in the battle of Asculum .
279 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	265/266 (southern Buddhism); 264/265 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	40th (41st) cycle , year of the water horse 壬午 ( at the beginning of the year metal snake 辛巳)
Greek calendar	1./2. Year of the 125th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3482/83
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDLXXV (475)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 32/33 (turn of the year April); Syria: 33/34 (turn of the year October)

Events

Eastern Mediterranean

• Ptolemy Keraunos , king of Macedonia , marries Arsinoë II , the widow of Lysimachus , but has their children killed, whereupon Arsinoe goes into exile in Samothrace .
• Celtic migrations to the south : Ptolemy Keraunos is killed when the Celts (Galatians) invade his country. His brother Meleagros also rules only briefly. It follows Antipater II , the son of Cassander , before Sosthenes finally becomes king in 279 and reigns for two years.

The routes of the Celtic tribes

• The Celts also penetrate in central Greece on after the Greeks vainly try to Thermopylae unstoppable. The Celts advance to Delphi to plunder the sanctuary there, which forces the Galatians to flee to the Hellespont . The Celts themselves, however, retreat northwards after a Greek victory at Delphi (according to legendary tradition, the Greek gods themselves intervened during a snow storm). Since the Phocians also distinguished themselves in battle, after their expulsion in 346 BC they were BC , again admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony .
• The Celtic tribe of the Skordisker settled in the area of ​​today's Serbia .
• Celtic tribes under Leonnorius and Lutarius besiege Byzantion , which has to pay tribute to them.
• Victory of the Bithynians over Hermogenes, a general of the Seleucid king Antiochus I.
• Completion of the Alexandria lighthouse after 20 years of construction.

Western Mediterranean

Western Mediterranean 279 BC

• King Pyrrhus of Epirus triumphs in the Pyrrhic War in the Battle of Asculum (the so-called Pyrrhic victory ) over the Romans under Gaius Fabricius Luscinus and Quintus Aemilius Papus .
• Alliance between Rome and Carthage

Died

• Antipater II , King of Macedon
• Meleagros , King of Macedon
• Phintias , tyrant of Akragas
• Ptolemaios Keraunos , King of Macedon (* around 320 BC )

• around 279 BC Chr .: Berenike I , wife of the Egyptian king Ptolemaios I.

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