-279

This page relates to the year -279 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

With Rome, Consul At of P. Sulpicius P.f. Saverrio, P. Decius P.f. Driven.
Rome counts 287 000 citizens (272 000 after the war against Pyrrhus).
Défaite Romains against Pyrrhus with the battles of Ausculum.
After its victory with Ausculum, where it loses 3600 men of its best troops, Pyrrhus goes until Préneste from where it threatens Rome. Returned in Tarente, it sends by twice envoys in Rome to negotiate peace and to devote themselves to the creation of a Greek empire of the Setting one. The Sénat hesitates, but old the Appius Claudius Caecus, chief of the intransigent party, involves the majority. Pyrrhus, to the call of Syracuse, passes in Sicily where it beats the Carthaginois without being able to remove to them their base of Lilybée.
Alliance of Rome and Carthage which sends to Ostie a fleet of help against Pyrrhus. The Roman Senate, supported by the punic fleet which crosses in front of the the Tiber, refuses to negotiate with Cinéas, sent of Pyrrhus.

Great forwarding: Invasion gallate in the Balkans. The king of Macedonia, Ptolémée Kéraunos, is killed while fighting against them. The Celtic army is divided into two. Brennos walk towards the South, but loses many men during the engagements. After having passed the Thermopyles with its troop of elite, it launches a raid on Delphes which is plundered. A legend evokes a miracle operated by Apollon to avoid the sacrilege, another speaks about the bag of Delphes and the treasures carried in Gaulle and found later by the Romans in sanctuaries of the area of Toulouse. Brennos, casualty, commit suicide.
the Celtes tried a diversion then, by invading the Étolie is and took Kallion which they reflect with bag and destroyed, before being pushed back and crushed by the Étoliens. These events marked the beginning of the rise of the Confédération étolienne which takes Delphes under are control.
Another fraction of the Celtic troops, remained in Thrace, will be demolished in -277 by Antigonos Gonatas. These Celts fold up themselves in Bulgaria where they will found the transitory kingdom of Tylis.

Arsinoé II, wife fugitive of its brother Ptolémée Kéraunos who assassinated two of his sons, goes to Egypt near his/her other brother Ptolémée II.

Brennos would have burst to laugh when it is said to him that the Greek adored stone or wood gods with human form, illustrated. The Celts indeed generally feel reluctant to represent their gods.

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