230 BC
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Gregorian calendar | 230 BC CCXXIX BC |
Ab urbe condita | 524 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 94 |
- Pharaoh | Ptolemy III Euergetes, 17 |
Ancient Greek era | 137th Olympiad, year 3 |
Assyrian calendar | 4521 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
Bengali calendar | −822 |
Berber calendar | 721 |
Buddhist calendar | 315 |
Burmese calendar | −867 |
Byzantine calendar | 5279–5280 |
Chinese calendar | 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2467 or 2407 — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2468 or 2408 |
Coptic calendar | −513 – −512 |
Discordian calendar | 937 |
Ethiopian calendar | −237 – −236 |
Hebrew calendar | 3531–3532 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −173 – −172 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2871–2872 |
Holocene calendar | 9771 |
Iranian calendar | 851 BP – 850 BP |
Islamic calendar | 877 BH – 876 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 2104 |
Minguo calendar | 2141 before ROC 民前2141年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1697 |
Seleucid era | 82/83 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 313–314 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) −103 or −484 or −1256 — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) −102 or −483 or −1255 |
Year 230 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
Events
[change | change source]By place
[change | change source]Asia Minor
[change | change source]- The city of Pergamum is attacked by the Galatians (Celts who have settled in central Anatolia) because the leader of Pergamum, Attalus I Soter, has refused to pay them the customary tribute. Attalus defeats his enemy in a battle outside the walls of his city. To mark the success he takes the title of king and the name Soter.
Greece
[change | change source]- King Agron of Illyria dies. Pinnes, the son of Agron and Agron's first wife Triteuta, succeeds his father as king. The kingdom is really ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta (Tefta). She removes the Greeks from the Illyrian coast. She then puts Illyrian pirate ships into the Ionian Sea, against the Roman shipping. She keeps her husband's way of attacking cities on the west coast of Greece.
Roman Republic
[change | change source]- With Roman merchants being killed by the Illyrian pirates, ships are sent by Rome to Illyria. The Roman ambassador lucius Coruncanius and the Issaean ambassador Cleemporus are murdered at sea. Then Romans take the island of Corcyra.
Egypt
[change | change source]- The Temple of Horus is built by King Ptolemy III.
China
[change | change source]- The state of Han is conquered by the state of Qin.
India
[change | change source]- King Kubera rules Bhattiprolu in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
Deaths
[change | change source]- Ad Herbal, admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the Mediterranean Sea for Carthage in the First Punic War against Rome
- Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 310 BC)
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