| Millennia: | 1st millennium BC |
| Centuries: | 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC - 270s BC - 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC |
| Years: | 279 BC 278 BC 277 BC 276 BC 275 BC 274 BC 273 BC 272 BC 271 BC 270 BC |
| Categories: | Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments |
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A millennium (pl millennia) is a period of Time equal to one thousand Years (from Latin la mille, thousand and la annum The 1st millennium BC encompasses the Iron Age and sees the rise of successive empires A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred is One hundred consecutive Years Centuries are numbered ordinally (e The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC The 2nd century BC started the first day of 200 BC and ended the last day of 101 BC. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them Events and trends Births Deaths Events and trends Births Deaths Events and trends Onset of the First Punic War ( 264 BC) Births Deaths Events and trends Births Deaths Events and trends Births Deaths This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Events By place Greece An army of Gauls under Brennus invade Greece. Events By place Seleucid Empire After their defeats in Greece, the Gauls move into Asia Minor. Events By place Greece Antigonus crosses the Hellespont and defeats the Celts under the command of Cerethrius near Lysimachia Events By place Egypt The Egyptian King Ptolemy II's first wife Arsinoe I (daughter of the late King Lysimachus Events By place Egypt The Museum of Alexandria is founded by the Egyptian King Ptolemy II. Events By place Greece Pyrrhus returns from Italy and Sicily and invades Macedonia driving Antigonus Events By place Egypt Impressed by Rome's defeat of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy II sends a friendly embassy Events By place Seleucid Empire The Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter is defeated by Egypt's Ptolemy II during Events By place Greece With the restoration of the territories captured by Pyrrhus, and with grateful allies in Sparta and Events By place Roman Republic Rome's subjugation of Italy is completed by the recapture of Rhegium (in southern Italy Gaul (Gallia was the Roman name for the region of Western Europe comprising present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Babylon was a City-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq The Pyrrhic War ( 280 &ndash 275 BC) was a complex series of battles and shifting political alliances among the Greeks (specifically Epirus, Epirus (from Ionic Greek Ήπειρος - Ēpeiros, Doric Greek: Ἅπειρος - Apeiros, in Albanian The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of theDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic