263 BC
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| Centuries: | 4th century BC · 3rd century BC · 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC |
| Years: | 266 BC 265 BC 264 BC 263 BC 262 BC 261 BC 260 BC |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- First Punic War: The Roman consul Manius Valerius Messalla secures the alliance of Hiero II of Syracuse.
[edit] Greece
- Eumenes I succeeds his uncle Philetaerus as king of Pergamon.
[edit] Births
- Antigonus III Doson, king of Macedon 229-221 BC.
[edit] Deaths
- Philetaerus founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia
