What happened in 260 BC?
Battle of Mylae, Battle of the Lipari Islands and Second Syrian War — among 21 events recorded in 260 BC.
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Wars & Conflicts 3
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Second Syrian War
260-253 BCE war between the Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire
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Battle of Mylae
First real naval battle between Carthage and the Roman Republic in the First Punic War
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Battle of the Lipari Islands
First encounter between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War
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People 10
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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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Cleomenes III born
Born in Sparta. King of Sparta.
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