Year 260 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asina and Duilius (or, less frequently...
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This article concerns the period 269 BC – 260 BC. The Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who have been employed by Agathocles, the former tyrant...
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to the center give 260. There are 260 days in the Mayan sacred calendar Tzolkin. 260 may also refer to the years AD 260 and 260 BC. 261 = 32·29, lucky...
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Battle of Mylae (redirect from Battle of Milazzo (260 BC))
The Battle of Mylae took place in 260 BC during the First Punic War and was the first real naval battle between Carthage and the Roman Republic. This battle...
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Qin victory. 260 BC: Ashoka inscribes the Edicts of Ashoka. 258 BC: An Dương Vương overthrows the Hồng Bàng dynasty in Viet Nam. 257 BC: Thục dynasty...
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Damocles (category 4th-century BC Syracusans)
of Sicily by Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 356 – c. 260 BC). The Roman orator Cicero (c. 106 – c. 43 BC), who may have read it in the texts of Greek historian...
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around 5000 BC, it was connected to Sardinia. In the south of the island, a multiphase megalith culture (Filitosa) developed around 3000 BC. Contacts with...
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Gaius Duilius (category 3rd-century BC Roman consuls)
Gaius Duilius (fl. 260–231 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. As consul in 260 BC, during the First Punic War, he won Rome's first ever victory at...
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Punic Wars (section First Punic War, 264–241 BC)
Mylae in 260 BC. A Carthaginian base on Corsica was seized, but an attack on Sardinia was repulsed; the base on Corsica was then lost. In 258 BC a Roman...
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comedy-of-manners genre originated in the New Comedy period (325–260 BC) of Classical Greece (510–323 BC), and is known from fragments of works by the playwright...
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Sabrakamani, King (early 3rd century BC) Arakamani, King (270–260 BC) Amanislo, King (260–250 BC) Amantekha, King (mid 3rd century BC) Sheshep-ankh-en-Amun Setepenre...
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submerged objects. The device was invented by the Romans in approximately 260 BC. The grappling hook was originally used in naval warfare to catch ship rigging...
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Timocharis (category 260 BC deaths)
Timocharis of Alexandria (Greek: Τιμόχαρις or Τιμοχάρης, gen. Τιμοχάρους; c. 320–260 BC) was a Greek astronomer and philosopher. Likely born in Alexandria, he was...
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Euthydemus I, king of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom from 223 BC (approximate date) (b. c. 260 BC) Walbank, Frank William (1940). Philip V of Macedon. Cambridge:...
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of Changping in 260 BC. Antigonus III Doson, king of Macedonia from 229 to 221 BC (d. 221 BC) Philetaerus, founder (reigned from 282 BC) of the Attalid...
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(Latin) 6th century BC: Celtic (Lepontic) c. 500 BC: Iranian (Old Persian) c. 260 BC: Indo-Aryan (Ashokan Prakrit) 4th century AD: Germanic (Gothic) 4th century...
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Theocritus (category 3rd-century BC Greek people)
Theocritus (/θiːˈɒkrɪtəs/; Greek: Θεόκριτος, Theokritos; born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of...
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Timeline of prehistory (redirect from 35,000 BC)
300 years ago (300 BC): Maya script, the only known full writing system developed in the Americas, emerges. 2,260 years ago (260 BC): Earliest deciphered...
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death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and lasted throughout the reign of the Macedonian rulers, ending about 260 BC. It is comparable to situation comedy...
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Battle of Changping (category 260 BC)
the Warring States period of ancient China, which took place from 262 BC to 260 BC at Changping (northwest of present-day Gaoping, Shanxi province), between...
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Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina (category 3rd-century BC Roman consuls)
Cornelius Scipio (consul 259 BC). His son was Publius Cornelius Scipio Asina, consul in 221 BC. Elected consul for the year 260 BC with Gaius Duillius, Scipio...
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Tiberius Sempronius Longus (c. 260 BC – unknown) was a Roman consul during the Second Punic War and a contemporary of Publius Cornelius Scipio (father...
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Sames 290–260 BC Arsames I 260–228 BC Xerxes of Armenia 228–212 BC Ptolemaeus of Commagene 201–163 BC Ptolemaeus of Commagene 163–130 BC Sames II Theosebes...
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of Janus is said to have been consecrated by the consul Gaius Duilius in 260 BC after the Battle of Mylae in the Forum Holitorium. It contained a statue...
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and the first star catalogue (d. 260 BC) Bindusara, the heir to the throne of the Mauryan Empire, is born. (d. 272 BC) Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Greek rhetorician...
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BC – Battle of Agrigentum – Carthaginian forces under Hannibal Gisco and Hanno are defeated by the Romans, who attain control of most of Sicily. 260 BC...
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Han (Warring States) (category 403 BC)
warring states to be conquered by Qin in 230 BC.: 45 Qin invasion of Han's Shangdang Commandery in 260 BC resulted in the Battle of Changping, claimed...
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Ancient literature (redirect from 1st millennium BC books)
280/260 BC — c. 200 BC), translator, founder of Roman drama Gnaeus Naevius (c. 264 — 201 BC), dramatist, epic poet Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 — 184 BC)...
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(elected 263 BC) Gaius Duilius (elected 260 BC) Gaius Aurelius Cotta (elected 252 and 248 BC) Gaius Fundanius Fundulus (elected 243 BC) Gaius Lutatius...
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Timaeus (historian) (category 3rd-century BC historians)
Timaeus of Tauromenium (Ancient Greek: Τιμαῖος; born 356 or 350 BC; died c. 260 BC) was an ancient Greek historian. He was widely regarded by ancient authors...
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