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...

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...

numbers from a corner 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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

(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...

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...

player 2004 – Gabriel Bateman, American actor 210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China (b. 260 BC) 602 – Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty...

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...

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...

Tiberius Sempronius Longus (c. 260 BC – unknown) was a Roman consul during the Second Punic War and a contemporary of Publius Cornelius Scipio (father...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

dynasty (3rd millennium BC) of traditional Chinese historiography. The earliest surviving written Chinese dates to roughly 1250 BC, consisting of divinations...

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...

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...

(elected 263 BC) Gaius Duilius (elected 260 BC) Gaius Aurelius Cotta (elected 252 and 248 BC) Gaius Fundanius Fundulus (elected 243 BC) Gaius Lutatius...

historians to lost writings of Timaeus of Tauromenium in Sicily (c. 356–260 BC). Ancient historians gave various dates, both for the foundation of Carthage...

to 368 BC Alexander II of Epirus (died 260 BC), king of Epirus in 272 BC Alexander II Zabinas, king of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 128–123 BC Alexander...