Year 241 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atticus and Cerco (or, less frequently...

Syria (d. 187 BC) 241 BC Antiochus III the Great, younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire (d. 187 BC) 249 BC King Hui of...

lasted 23 years, until 241 BC, when the Carthaginians were defeated. By the terms of the Treaty of Lutatius (241, amended 237 BC), Carthage paid large...

Hamilcar commanded the Carthaginian land forces in Sicily from 247 BC to 241 BC, during the latter stages of the First Punic War. He kept his army intact...

(282–263 BC) Eumenes I (263–241 BC) Attalus I Soter (241–197 BC) Eumenes II (197–159 BC) Attalus II Philadelphus (159–138 BC) Attalus III (138–133 BC) Eumenes...

The siege of Lilybaeum lasted for nine years, from 250 to 241 BC, as the Roman army laid siege to the Carthaginian-held Sicilian city of Lilybaeum (modern...

Gaius Lutatius Catulus (fl. 242–241 BC) was a Roman statesman and naval commander in the First Punic War. He was born a member of the plebeian gens Lutatius...

BC Aegialeas 242 - 241 BC (?) Aratus of Sicyon III 241 - 240 BC Aratus of Sicyon IV 239 - 238 BC Aratus of Sicyon V 237 - 236 BC Dioedas 236 - 235 BC...

Year 243 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Fundulus and Galus (or, less frequently...

bringing her territory into the Ptolemaic realm. In the Third Syrian War (246–241 BC), Ptolemy III invaded the Seleucid empire and won a near total victory,...

ruled from 195 BC (b. 210 BC) 187 BC Antiochus III the Great, Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire from 223 BC (b. c. 241 BC) 186 BC Li Cang, Marquis...

the Great, Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire from 223 BC (b. c. 241 BC) Volkmann, Hans (February 13, 2024). "Antiochus III the Great". Encyclopædia...

Year 242 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Catulus and Albinus (or, less frequently...

respectively. This was an expedient development, starting in 327 BC and becoming regular by 241 BC, that was meant to allow consuls and praetors to continue...

east, occupying various temporary capitals until settling in Shouchun in 241 BC. Qu Yuan writes the poem "Lament for Ying" after the fall of the capital...

demobilized the Carthaginian navy in 244 BC, giving Rome time to rebuild its navy and finally defeat Carthage by 241 BC. After the war, Hanno refused to pay...

Punic War in 241 BC the island was conquered by the Romans. The first Greek colonies were founded in eastern Sicily in the 8th century BC when the Chalcidian...

(264–241 BC), supported by uprisings of African settlements revolting against Carthaginian control. It lasted from 241 to late 238 or early 237 BC and...

de facto ruler of the Chinese Han dynasty and wife of Emperor Gao (b. 241 BC) Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly...

frontier. Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamum from 241 BC, who has taken on the title of king after about 230 BC. Through his military and diplomatic skills...

Year 238 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gracchus and Falto (or, less frequently...

Year 240 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Centho and Tuditanus (or, less frequently...

 237 BC) was a Libyan from the North African possessions of Carthage and was recruited into the Carthaginian Army during the First Punic War (264–241 BC)...

(264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For...

in succession to Arcesilaus from 241 BC. He was forced to resign c. 215 BC due to ill-health, and he died c. 205 BC. Nothing survives of his works. He...

victory in 241 BC after 23 years and enormous losses on both sides. After the war Carthage expanded its holdings in Iberia where in 219 BC a Carthaginian...

League to Antigonus II 243 BC: Surprise attack on the Macedonian garrison at Corinth. Expansion of the Achaean League. 241 BC: First Punic War ends in Carthaginian...

the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of...

height of its power. Upon taking the Seleucid throne in 223 BC, Antiochus III the Great (241–187 BC) set himself the task of restoring the lost imperial possessions...

prior to 241 BC. Spendius's date of birth is unknown, as are most details of his activities prior to his coming to prominence as a mutineer in 241 BC. After...