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Syria
★ The
Seleucid king
Seleucus III is assassinated in
Phrygia by members of his army while on campaign against
Attalus of
Pergamon.
★ Seleucus is succeeded by his younger brother,
Antiochus III. From the previous administration, Antiochus III retains
Hermeias as his chief minister,
Achaeus as governor of
Anatolia, and
Molon and his brother
Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces of
Media and
Persis.
Roman Republic
★
Gaius Flaminius Nepos is elected
consul for the first time, and with
Publius Furius Philus he forces the Cisalpine Gauls to submit to Rome, creating the province of
Cisalpine Gaul.
Greece
★ The
Spartan king
Cleomenes III destroys and burns the city of
Megalopolis but the inhabitants are saved by
Philopoemen who leads the defence of the city until the inhabitants can escape.
★ The king of
Macedonia,
Antigonus III Doson, restores Macedonian influence in the
Peloponnese for the first time in almost two decades. After signing alliances with the
Achaeans,
Boeotians,
Thessalians and the
Acarnanians, Antigonus invades the Peloponnese and drives the Spartans out of
Argos, taking
Orchomenos and
Mantineia in the process.
Persia
★ King
Diodotus II of
Bactria is killed by a usurper,
Euthydemus I, founder of the Greco-Bactrian Euthydemid dynasty.
China
★ The
state of Qin conquers the
state of Chu.
Births
★
Deaths
★
Seleucus III, king of the Seleucid dynasty from
226 BC (assassinated)
★
Diodotus II, King of
Bactria, the son and successor of
Diodotus I
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