• Year 262 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Otacilius (or, less frequently...
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  • of Bithynia (approximate date) 263 BC Antigonus III Doson, king of Macedonia from 229 to 221 BC (d. 221 BC) 262 BC Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus), Greek...
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  • stalemate. Antiochus I Soter, Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire (or 262 BC) Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Lian Po. "Antiochus...
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    Battle of Agrigentum (category 261 BC)
    The Battle of Agrigentum (Sicily, 262 BC) was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between...
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  • Acrotatus (king of Sparta) (category 262 BC deaths)
    Acrotatus (Greek: Ἀκρότατος; died 262 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta from 265 to 262 BC. He was the son of Areus I, and grandson of Acrotatus. He had...
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  • of the former Qi State (Zhou dynasty) (b. 221 BC) Zhang Liang, Chinese rebel and taoist, who has helped Liu Bang establish the Han dynasty (b. 262 BC)...
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  • Year 265 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gurges and Vitulus (or, less frequently...
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  • 1982, he composed a ballet on the life of Emperor Ashoka, called Rhythm of 262 BC. In 2013, he obtained permission from the Government of Assam to make the...
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  • Year 259 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scipio and Florus (or, less frequently...
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    Stoicism (approximate date) (d. c. 262 BC) Pixodarus, King of Caria Wikimedia Commons has media related to 334 BC. Walkbank, Frank W. (February 21, 2024)...
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    Zeno of Citium (category 330s BC births)
    (/ˈziːnoʊ/; Koinē Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. He...
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    Year 264 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caudex and Flaccus (or, less frequently...
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    Cleanthes (category 230s BC deaths)
    himself by working as a water-carrier at night. After the death of Zeno, c. 262 BC, he became the head of the school, a post he held for the next 32 years...
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  • 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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  • Fergus Fortamail (category 3rd-century BC legendary monarchs)
    BC). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 274–262 BC, that of the Annals of the Four Masters to 396–385 BC....
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  • Year 263 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mesella and Crassus (or, less frequently...
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  • known by his contemporaries as "The Great Geometer", whose treatise "Conics" is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world (b. c. 262 BC)...
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  • (314–256 BC) Chu (complete list) – Huai, King (328–299 BC) Qingxiang, King (298–263 BC) Kaolie, King (262–238 BC) You, King (237–228 BC) Ai, King (228 BC) Fuchu...
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  • Roman consul and praetor 285–4 BC Lucius Postumius Megellus (consul 262 BC), Roman general, politician and consul (262 BC) Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus,...
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  • (approximate date) (d. c. 262 BC) 339 BC Speusippus, head of Plato's Academy (b. 407 BC) Ateas, king of the Scythians (b. c. 429 BC) 338 BC Artaxerxes III, king...
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  • (Zhou dynasty) (b. 221 BC) Zhang Liang, Chinese rebel and taoist, who has helped Liu Bang establish the Han dynasty (b. 262 BC) 188 BC Hui of Han, the second...
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  • This article concerns the period 199 BC – 190 BC. The Roman general Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus attacks the Insubres in Gaul, but loses over 6,700 soldiers...
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    180 BC. Marcus Mamilius Vitulus, grandfather of the consuls of 265 and 262 BC. Quintus Mamilius M. f. Vitulus, father of the consul of 265 and 262 BC. Lucius...
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    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...
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  • Megellus (c. 300 BC – 253 BC) was a politician and general during the middle years of the Roman Republic. He was elected consul in 262 BC, and fought during...
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    First Punic War (category 260s BC conflicts)
    base at Akragas. A large Carthaginian army attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC but was heavily defeated at the Battle of Akragas. The Romans then built...
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  • Macerinus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 262 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 492 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval...
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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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    infantry, 6,000 cavalry and 60 elephants attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC, but was badly defeated at the battle of Akragas. That night the Carthaginian...
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    fragments of Menander. The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind...
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