What happened in 289 BC?
3 recorded events in 289 BC, including 2 in people and 1 in wars & conflicts.
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Wars & Conflicts 1
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Epirote-Macedonian War
289 BCE war
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People 2
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Agathocles of Syracuse died
Greek tyrant of Syracuse from 317 to 289 BC
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Pytheas died
Ancient Greek explorer
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Around this time
The nearest recorded events on either side of 289 BC.
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Siege of Thebes
Battle between Demetrius I of Macedon and the Greek city state of Thebes in 291 BC
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Megasthenes died
Ancient Greek ethnographer and explorer
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Menander died
Athenian playwright of New Comedy
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Eudemus of Rhodes died
Ancient Greek philosopher
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Autolycus of Pitane died
Ancient Greek mathematician
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Onesicritus died
Ancient Greek historian and admiral
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Zhuang Zhou died
Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)
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Fifth War of the Diadochi
Fifth War of the Diadochi (Wars & Conflicts).
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Theophrastus died
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
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Siege of Athens
Siege by Demetrius' I forces in 287 BCE
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Archimedes born
Born in Syracuse. Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC).
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Ptolemy I Soter died
Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt
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