Year 290 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufinus and Dentatus (or, less frequently...

The First, Second, and Third Samnite Wars (343–341 BC, 326–304 BC, and 298–290 BC) were fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on...

r. 291–215 BC Aktisanes, King of Kush, r. c. 300-290 BC Cassander, King of Macedon, r. 305–297 BC Philip IV, King of Macedon, r. 297 BC Alexander V and...

This was attested to by the Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC, a description that was later quoted by Josephus. The construction of the...

456/45–431 BC Coin of Akanthos, Macedon, c. 470-430 BC. Coin of Aspendos, Pamphylia, c. 465–430 BC. Coin from Korkyra, c. 350/30–290/70 BC. Coin of Cyprus...

Macedon to command the garrison which he left at Athens, apparently in 290 BC. An attempt was made by the Athenians to possess themselves of the fortress...

borders it had during the floruit of the Oscan speakers, from about 600 BC to about 290 BC, when it was finally absorbed by the Roman Republic. The original...

BC) Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (3rd or 4th century BC) Megasthenes (died c. 290 BC) Autolycus of Pitane (died c. 290 BC) Dicaearchus (died c. 285 BC)...

reign allegedly began in 290 BC. He had one wife and three consorts with whom he fathered seven children. After his death in 215 BC, one of his sons supposedly...

his first term as consul in 290 BC, with a colleague by the name of P. Cornelius Rufinus (cos. 290 and 277 BC, dict. 276 BC and ancestor of Lucius Cornelius...

unit of the Roman Republican armies, adopted during the Samnite Wars (343–290 BC). It was also the name of the military insignia carried by such units. Maniple...

(204–181 BC). Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign from 315 to 290 BC, the Annals of the Four Masters from 443 to 418 BC. Dictionary...

Solitary 410 BC – Plato the Comic 402 BC – Cephisodoros 290 BC – Poseidippus 278 BC – Philemon 185 BC – Laines 183 BC – Philemon 154 BC – Chairion The...

of the word was first attested in c. 2150 BC under the reign of Naram-Sin of Akkad, and later in c. 1700 BC in the Code of Hammurabi. The Hebrew reflex...

(Greek: Ἑκαταῖος ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης; c. 360 BC – c. 290 BC), was a Greek historian who flourished in the 4th century BC. Though none of his works survive, his...

to an end in his first consulship, in 290 BC, with his colleague Manius Curius Denatus. In the elections of 277 BC, Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, consul the...

succession of Rome. Millennia: 1st BC · 1st–2nd Centuries: 7th BC · 6th BC · 5th BC · 4th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st BC · 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th ·...

god to build a temple to another. After Alexander's death in 323 BC, Ephesus in 290 BC came under the rule of one of Alexander's generals, Lysimachus....

overwhelming victory at the Battle of the Caudine Forks (321 BC), the Samnites were subjugated in 290 BC. Although severely weakened, the Samnites would still...

Samnites. 310 BC – Battle of Lake Vadimo – Romans, led by dictator Lucius Papirius Cursor, defeat the Etruscans. Third Samnite War (298–290 BC) 298 BC – Battle...

including a first milestone near the Porta Appia. The Third Samnite War (298–290 BC) is perhaps misnamed. It was an all-out attempt by all the neighbors of...

prime minister to the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta Maurya (c. 340–290 BC), mentions silver coins as rūpyarūpa, other types including gold coins (suvarṇarūpa)...

a list of sovereign states or polities that existed in the 3rd m century BC. List of Bronze Age states List of Iron Age states List of Classical Age states...

century B.C. they began to expand into the territories of their neighbours, especially in Campania and the Liris valley. In the 4th century (B.C.), the...

BC) Theaetetus (c. 417 BC – 369 BC) Autolycus of Pitane (360–c. 290 BC) – astronomy, spherical geometry Euclid (fl. 300 BC) – Elements, Euclidean geometry...

Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul and general during the First Punic War (b. c. 290 BC) Ptolemy III, king of Egypt, who has reunited Egypt and Cyrenaica and successfully...

Year 288 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tremulus and Arvina (or, less frequently...

(c. 290 BC – 221 BC) was the son of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter. He was consul in 251 BC and 247 BC, Pontifex Maximus beginning about 243 BC and...

Year 293 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Maximus (or, less frequently...

Menander (/məˈnændər/; Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy...