What happened in 260 BC?
10 recorded events in 260 BC, including 9 in people and 1 in wars & conflicts.
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Wars & Conflicts 1
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Second Syrian War
260-253 BCE war between the Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire
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People 9
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Timocharis died
Ancient Greek astronomer
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Menippus died
3rd-century BC Greek Cynic satirist
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Theocritus died
3rd-century BCE Greek poet
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Zenodotus died
3rd century BC Greek grammarian, literary critic and scholar; first librarian of the Library of Alexandria (c. 280 BCE); pioneer of textual criticism and editorial philology; the Zenodo research repository is named after him
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Timaeus died
Greek historian (died c. 260 BC)
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Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina died
Roman consul 260 BC
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Philochorus died
Greek historian (c. 340 BC – c. 261 BC)
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Leonidas of Tarentum died
Ancient Greek poet
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Gaius Marcius Rutilus Censorinus died
Roman consul in 310 BC
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