290 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

290 BC Chr.
290 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	254/255 (southern Buddhism); 253/254 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	40th (41st) cycle , year of the metal sheep 辛未 ( at the beginning of the year metal horse 庚午)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 122nd Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3471/72
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDLXIV (464)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 21/22 (turn of the year April); Syria: 22/23 (turn of the year October)

Events

Politics and world events

• Thebes again unsuccessful uprising against Demetrios I Poliorketes .
• The Samnites (including cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum ) are obliged to serve in the army after the Third Samnite War (298 BC – 290 BC). Construction of the Hadria colony near the Adriatic coast.
• Victory of the Romans under Dentatus over the Sabines , whose cities Cures , Reate , Amiternum and Nursia were then given Roman citizenship without voting rights.

Culture

• Demetrios I has the Pythian Games held in Athens instead of - as usual - in Delphi .

Historical maps and views

The Caucasus 290 BC Chr.

Died

• Zhuangzi , Chinese philosopher and poet (* around 365 BC )
• 291/290 BC Chr .: Menander , Greek comic poet (* 342 / 341 v. Chr. )
• around 290 BC Chr .: Autolykos von Pitane , Greek astronomer and mathematician (* around 360 BC )
• around 290 BC Chr .: Mengzi , Chinese philosopher (* around 370 BC )