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...

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...

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...

(/ˈziːnoʊ/; Koinē Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. He...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Roman consul and praetor 285–4 BC Lucius Postumius Megellus (consul 262 BC), Roman general, politician and consul (262 BC) Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

of Greece 353 to 350 BC – Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is built in Lydia, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world 334 to 262 BC – Zeno of Citium, Founder...

until after Athens had already been starved into surrender in either 262 BC or 261 BC. In the end it did not matter since when the Ptolemies finally tried...

Olympiad, (276–272 BC). Strabo (Geography, i.2.2), though, states that he was a "pupil" (γνωριμος) of Zeno of Citium (who died in 262 BC), which would imply...

to shift his allegiance and forge a long-lasting alliance with Rome. In 262 BC, the Romans moved to the southern coast and besieged Akragas. In order to...

evidence for the existence of any kings before the middle of the sixth century BC or so. Spartan kings received a recurring posthumous hero cult like that of...

his family, plebeian, was a native of the princely family of Tusculum. In 262 BC, during the third year of the First Punic War, he was elected consul. With...

334-262 BC Stoic founder of the Stoic school of philosophy Zeno of Elea Presocratic, Eleatic famous creator of Zeno's paradoxes Zeno of Sidon 150-75 BC Epicurean...

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...

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)...

(Chinese: 楚考烈王; pinyin: Chǔ Kǎoliè Wáng, died 238 BC) was the king of the state of Chu from 262 BC to 238 BC during the late Warring States period of ancient...

262 BC, guaranteeing Pergamon's independence. Antiochus died the following year, Antiochus I Soter was succeeded by his son Antiochus II (261–246 BC)...

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....

Philemon (Greek: Φιλήμων; c. 362 BC – c. 262 BC) was an Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy. He was born either at Soli in Cilicia or at Syracuse...

Italy (since 2010) Zeno of Citium (c. 334 – c. 262 BC), Stoic philosopher Apollonios of Kition (1st century BC), physician, nicknamed "the Cypriot Hippocrates"...

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...

Perga (c. 262 BC – c. 190 BC) – Euclidean geometry, conic sections Archimedes (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) – Euclidean geometry Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC – c. 195/194...