-239

This page relates to the year -239 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Transfer of population to Qin to populate the area of the capital, current the Xianyang on left bank of the Wei. 120 000 families of the nobility would have been moved there.

Demolished Séleucos II with Ancyre against Antiochos Hiérax combined with the Gallates.
the governor Diodote Ier founds the Greek kingdom independent of Bactriane (fine in -139). This State, composed of the satrapies of Bactres and Sogdiane torn off with the Séleucides will extend towards the North-East and the south until including/understanding the important wide ones of territories in India, located well beyond the conquests of Alexandre Large the.

Beginning of the reign of Démétrios II, king of Macedonia (fine in -229). Sons of Antigonos Gonatas, must fight against a general coalition of central Greece and Peloponnese (démétriaque war).
Aratos de Sicyone besieges the garrison Macedonian of the Pirée, then Argos, in vain.
With Rome, Consul At of C. Mamilius Q.f. Turrinus, Q. Valerius Q.f. Falto.
Rome intervenes in Greece in diplomatic form in favor of the Acarnanie NS threatened by the Etoliens.

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