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262 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
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262 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar262 BC
CCLXII BC
Ab urbe condita492
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 62
- PharaohPtolemy II Philadelphus, 22
Ancient Greek era129th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4489
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−854
Berber calendar689
Buddhist calendar283
Burmese calendar−899
Byzantine calendar5247–5248
Chinese calendar戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
2436 or 2229
    — to —
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
2437 or 2230
Coptic calendar−545 – −544
Discordian calendar905
Ethiopian calendar−269 – −268
Hebrew calendar3499–3500
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−205 – −204
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2839–2840
Holocene calendar9739
Iranian calendar883 BP – 882 BP
Islamic calendar910 BH – 909 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2072
Minguo calendar2173 before ROC
民前2173年
Nanakshahi calendar−1729
Seleucid era50/51 AG
Thai solar calendar281–282
Tibetan calendar阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
−135 or −516 or −1288
    — to —
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
−134 or −515 or −1287

Year 262 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Otacilius (or, less frequently, year 492 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 262 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

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By place

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Greece

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Roman Republic

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  • Rome besieges the city of Agrigentum which is held by Carthage under the command of Hannibal Gisco. Rome's siege involves both consular armies – a total of four Roman legions – and takes several months to resolve. The garrison of Agrigentum manages to call for reinforcements and a Carthaginian relief force commanded by Hanno comes to the rescue and destroys the Roman supply base at Erbessus. Nevertheless, after a few skirmishes, the battle of Agrigentum is fought and won by Rome, and the city falls. Gisco manages to escape to Carthage in the late stages of the battle.
  • After the loss of Agrigentum, the Carthaginians retire to organise their fleet. In the meantime, the Romans sack Agrigentum and enslave its Greek inhabitants. The Romans are now determined to drive the Carthaginians out of Sicily.

Seleucid Empire

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  • Seleucid king Antiochus I's eldest son Seleucus, who has ruled in the east of the kingdom as viceroy for a number of years, is put to death by his father on the charge of rebellion.
  • Antiochus I tries to break the growing power of Pergamum by force of arms. Eumenes I, the new ruler of Pergamum, liberates his city from the overlordship of the Seleucids by defeating the army of Antiochus I near Sardis (the capital of Lydia), and thereby establishing an independent city-state.
  • Antiochus I dies and is succeeded by his second son Antiochus II Theos.

China

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Births

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  • Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus), Greek astronomer and mathematician specialising in geometry and noted for his writings on conic sections (d. c. 190 BC)

Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ The Freedom of the Greeks in the Early Hellenistic Period (337-262 BC). A Study in Ruler-City Relations, Shane Wallace
  2. ^ Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Basic Annals of Qin, Section: Bai Qi.