Year 250 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Regulus and Longus (or, less frequently...

influence ceased in the area by c. 250 BC. Following the eviction of the Seleucid by the Parthian Empire in c. 250 BC, the latter gained dominion over the...

This article concerns the period 259 BC – 250 BC. The Seleucid king Antiochus II starts the Second Syrian War against Ptolemy II Philadelphus to avenge...

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...

Macrophase 2b, from c.400 to 250 BC, and Macedonian siege to Barikot (Bazira) occurred within this period, in autum 327 BC. Also during Macrophase 2b,...

times the area of the previous largest civilisation around the year 3000 BC. Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population...

millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...

King Xiaowen of Qin (302–250 BC), personal name Ying Zhu or Ying Shi, was a king of the Qin state. He is also known as Lord Anguo (安國君), based on his title...

The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage. Three wars took place, on both land...

and the North Atlantic that ran from approximately 250 BC to AD 400. Theophrastus (371 – c. 287 BC) wrote that date trees could grow in Greece if they...

King (276–250 BC) Demetrius the Fair, King (250–249 BC) Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt (complete list) – Ptolemy I Soter, Pharaoh (305–283/282 BC) Ptolemy...

mention of the "Yauna" in the Persepolis Administrative Archives (550–333 BC). The mention of the "Yona king Aṃtiyoka" in the Edicts of Ashoka (280 BCE)...

ruled BC 260 ~ BC 250 (before his son Agron) Agron of Illyria: reigned from 250 BC to 230 BC (after his father Pleuratus II). In 231 BC, Agron possessed...

276–250 BC Berenice II (Queen) 258–246 BC, alongside a series of her co-rulers: Magas, Demetrius and a republican government Demetrius the Fair 250–249...

fairly accurate approximations of π for practical computations. Around 250 BC, the Greek mathematician Archimedes created an algorithm to approximate...

to the northwest (the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent) around 250 BC. Their subsequent westward migration, possibly in waves, is now believed...

consul in 257 and 250 BC. With a wife named Marcia, he had at least one son, also named Marcus, who later became consul in 227 and 217 BC before also being...

was introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda.[citation needed] c. 250 BC: The Third Buddhist council was convened by Ashoka. Ashoka sends Buddhist...

present-day South Sudan into Kenya around 500 BC. Bantu people settled at the coast and the interior between 250 BC and 500 AD. European contact began in 1500...

analyzed were from a time frame that falls between approximately 450 and 250 BC. In addition to the mummies of ancient Egypt, deliberate mummification was...

trade route, was one of the earliest capitals of the Parthian Empire (c. 250 BC). The city is located in the northern foothills of the Kopetdag mountains...

Meng Tian (c. 250 BC – c.August or September 210 BC)) was a Chinese inventor and military general of the Qin dynasty who distinguished himself in campaigns...

Timaeus of Locri, 5th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's dialogue Timaeus (historian) (c. 345 BC-c. 250 BC), Greek historian from Tauromenium...

general and statesman, who served as consul of the Roman Republic in 256 and 250 BC. He is remembered for his military successes; his military achievements...

Asia via Tibet, and helped preserve Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts. By 250 BC, the southern regions had come under the influence of the Maurya Empire...

the Warring States period (481 BC – 403 BC) and the Qin state (9th century BC – 221 BC) and dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC). Early Warring States period Qin...

156 BC. A reconstruction of it is now kept at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Quintus Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul and dictator (b. c. 250 BC) Seleucus...

30,000 inhabitants, excluding slaves. It was destroyed and abandoned in 250 BC and never reoccupied. Selinunte was one of the most important of the Greek...

Magas of Cyrene (Greek: Μάγας ὁ Κυρηναῖος; born before 317 BC – 250 BC, ruled 276 BC – 250 BC) was a Greek King of Cyrenaica. Through his mother’s second...

Xiaowen of Qin, ruled 250 BC King Zhuangxiang of Qin, ruled 250 BC – 247 BC, father of Qin Shi Huang Qin Shi Huang, ruled 246 BC – 221 BC as King of Qin before...