3rd century BC

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Centuries:	4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
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2nd millennium BC -

1st millennium BC -

1st millennium

The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC.

Contents 1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

[edit] Events

• Early 3rd century BC or later - Theater, Epidauros is built.
• Late 3rd century BC or 2nd century BC - Veiled and masked dancer is made. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Teotihuacán, Mexico begun.
• The first two Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome over dominance in western Mediterranean.
• Rome conquers Spain.
• Gaulish migration to Macedon, Thrace and Galatia.
• 282 BC - 226 BC: Colossus of Rhodes.
• 281 BC Antiochus I Soter, on the assassination of his father Seleucus becomes emperor of the Seleucid empire.
• 279 BC Singidunum and Taurunum, today's Belgrade and Zemun, founded by Scordisci Celts.
• 275 BC: end of history of Babylon.
• 273 BC - 252 BC Ashoka the Great ruled the Mauryan Empire.
• 261 BC Antiochus II Theos, 2nd son, at the death of his father becomes emperor of the Seleucid empire.
• 214 BC Qin Shi Huang Qin Dynasty ordered construction of the Great Wall of China.
• Indian traders regularly visited Arabia.
• Scythians occupy Sogdiana, in modern-day Uzbekistan.
• Han dynasty was founded (202 BC - 8 AD).
• The Pharos of Alexandria is built.
• Appearance of the Hopewell culture in Ohio, USA.

[edit] Significant persons

• Mencius, Chinese philosopher and sage (371 - 289 BC).
• Euclid, geometer (c. 365 - 275 BC).
• Ashoka, Mauryan ruler of India 273 BC - 232 BC.
• Archimedes of Syracuse, mathematician, physicist, and engineer (c. 287 - 212 BC).
• Eratosthenes (c. 276 - 194 BC), Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer.
• Apollonius of Perga, mathematician (c. 262 - 190 BC).
• Qin Shi Huang, Chinese Emperor (259 - 210 BC, reigned 246 - 210 BC).
• Hannibal, military leader of Carthage (247 - 182 BC).
• the "second" Brennus, Gaulish chieftain, invades Macedonia in 279 BC
• The Ptolemaic dynasty rules Egypt
  • Ptolemy I Soter (305 BC-282 BC) and his wives Eurydice and
  • Ptolemy II Philadelphos (284 BC-246 BC) and his wives Arsinoe I and Arsinoe II Philadelphos.
  • Ptolemy III Euergetes I (246 BC-222 BC) and his wife Berenice II.
  • Ptolemy IV Philopater (222 BC-204 BC) and his wife Arsinoe III.
  • Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204 BC-180 BC) and his wife Cleopatra I.
• Appius Claudius Caecus, Aqua Appia, Via Appia, invented letter G
• Arcesilaus, founder of new Academy
• Manetho, wrote History of Egypt
• Xun Zi, founder of Legalism (philosophy)
• Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism

[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Eratosthenes accurately calculates diameter of the Earth
• Weiqi well-established in China, and may date back to the 2nd millennium BC
• Stone of Canopus (for Ptolemy III), No. 1, in Rosetta Stone Series of 3 stones. Implements Leap year in Egypt. Leap year not formally recognized until Caesar in 55 B.C.
• 293 BC: first Roman Sundial [Pliny (79ce): Natural History 7.213]
• Water screw invented by Archimedes
• Invention of the musical instrument hydraulis, the precursory to the Pipe organ by Ktesibios, a Greek engineer working in Alexandria.

[edit] Decades and years

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