282 BC Chr.

282 BC Chr.

282 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	262/263 (southern Buddhism); 261/262 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	40th (41st) cycle , year of the earth-hare己卯 ( at the beginning of the year earth-tiger 戊寅)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 124th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3479/80
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita CDLXXII (472)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 29/30 (turn of April); Syria: 30/31 (turn of the year October)

Events

283/282 BC BC: The Roman Empire defeats the Etruscans and the Gauls ( Senones and Boier ) in the battle of the Vadimonian Sea . The Romans then occupied the Senonian area and founded the colony Sena Gallica .
Victory of the Romans over the Etruscans at Populonia . The Etruscans are committed to army succession.
After ending the fighting with the Gauls and Etruscans, the Romans the city come Thurioi to help and defeat near under their consul Gaius Fabricius Luscinus the Lucanians whose commander Statius Statilius captured. Rome relocates garrisons to the Greek cities of Lokri , Kroton , Thurii and Rhegion .
Autumn - A Roman fleet of ten ships passes the port of Taranto , although according to a Roman-Tarantine treaty dating from 303 BC it was BC the Romans were forbidden to send ships into the Gulf of Taranto. The Tarentines then destroy the Roman ships and conquer Thurii in winter 282/81, whose Roman garrison is expelled. Beginning of the Pyrrhic War .

Coin with the portrait of Philetaire

Philetairos , governor of Lysimachus in Pergamon , hands the city over to Seleucus I , who declares war on Lysimachus in order to conquer his holdings in Asia Minor.

In honor of his late father Ptolemy I, Ptolemy II organized the Ptolemies based on the Panhellenic Games in Alexandria for the first time . The Games, to which participants come from all over Greece, will soon achieve a status comparable to the Olympic Games in the Greek world.