-250

This page relates to the year -250 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

With Rome, Consul At of C. Atilius M.f. Regulus II, L. Manlius A.f. Vulso II.
Fire of the Temple of Vesta to Rome.
Regulus is torture victim with Carthage after the failure of its peace negotiations.
Victoire of the new fleet Roman E with Panorme.

Zipoétès III and Zélas dispute the throne of Bithynie with died of their father Nicomède Ier (towards -250/-243).
Beginning of the reign of Mithridate II, king of the Bridge.
Beginning of the reign of Diodote Ier, Greek king of Bactriane (fine in -234). Foundation of the Kingdom gréco-bactrien.

the Parthian chief Arsace and his brother Tiridate lead their people of the steppes of the Turkestan to the Iranian plate. They found a dynasty independent of the empire Séleucide (Arsacides) based with Nissa, in the Turkménistan. Cut off from inaccessible heights, Arsace proceeds to profitable incursions into lowland, always with the hands of the Séleucides. He dies during one of his forwardings (-248).

the area inhabited by Parthes, roughcast mountains and forests, is poor and sterile.

the extension of Qin is contained some time by the alliance of the six other powers. But this one lasts only 15 years, and Qin will annex its neighbors gradually.
System of irrigation of Dujiangyan: Digging of an irrigation canal enters the courses of Jing and Luo, parallel to the river Wei (Shaanxi). At the origin fruit of a machination of the prince of Han in order to weaken the Qin by great work, this work will contribute to the rise of the State Qin. These great achievements, created at the beginning to supply the armies, cause the increase in the agricultural productions and demography (from 10 to 50 million inhabitants for the period of Zhou Eastern).

Théocrite of Syracuse, poet (born in -305). It created, with Cos and Alexandria, the kind of the idylle bucolic and given its form the most completed to the MIME, with exquisite tables of the urban life ( the Magicians, Syracusaines ).
Hérophile, Greek doctor.
Dregs Yukou, Chinese philosopher (approximate date)

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