This page relates to the year -280 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

• the Carthaginian supported by the Torréens mercenaries already being useful in the rows of the army since the Ve century, drive out the Syracusains Corsica .

Roman world

• With Rome, Consul At of P. Valerius Lævinus, Tiberius Coruncanius.

• Pyrrhus gains a victory with the Bataille of Héraclée against P. Valerius Laevinius. Pyrrhus uses elephants which disconcert the Romans but loses 4000 of its best men. The Roman army is withdrawn. The Greek of the South, the Bruttiens, Lucaniens, Samnites of the south and the Messapes give up the Roman cause and rejoin the army of Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus, cash on the defection of the Italic allies of Rome, advances until Anagni or Préneste and threatens Rome. The Roman armies are on the point of cutting it its base and it must beat a retreat towards the Campanie, then towards Tarente with the end of the year. It spends the winter to incorporate elements italiotes - Samnites, Lucaniens, Bruttiens, Apuliens - in its army.

• a company of mercenaries, the legio campana , infests the Bruttium and seizes Rhêgion.
• the consul Tiberius Coruncanius triumph of the Etruscan of Vulci and Volsinies.

• Creation of the first copper coins in Rome.

Celtic world

• Three groups of Celtes go successively on the Balkans: the Celts of Kerethrios invade the territory of the Triballes and the Thrace, those of Bolgios the It and the Macedonia, the troops of Brennos and Akichorios the Péonie. The Celts enter to Macedonia by undoubtedly going up the valley of the Morava and make undergo a cuisante demolished with the army of Ptolémée Kéraunos, which captured, will be decapitated.

World hellenistic

• Séleucos Ier, king of Syria, removed of Démétrios Ier Poliorcète and Lysimaque becomes Master of Asia Mineure, proclaims king de Macédoine and crosses the Hellespont with an important army. But it is assassinated by Ptolémée Kéraunos which has just seized the Thrace and the Macedonia, to marry his half-sister Arsinoé, widow of Lysimaque, while making kill the children that she had had of this marriage.
• Beginning of the reign of Antiochos Ier Sôter (-324/-261) king of Syria.

• Reorganization of the Achaean League with Corinth at its head, to drive out the Macedonians.
• posthumous Honors voted with Démosthène with Athens.
• probable Access to the throne of Nicomède Ier king of Bithynie (between 280 av. J. - C. and 278 av. J. - C.).
• Mithridate I {{er}} Ktistês is proclaimed independent and founded the Pontus.

Science

• Aristarque de Samos uses the size of the shade of the Earth on the Moon to estimate that the moonbeam is equal to the third of that of the Earth.

Art & culture

• Statue of Démosthène.
• History of the Diadoque S and History of the epigone S of Hieronymos de Cardia.
• History of Greece and History of Macedonia (of -370 with -280) of Douris de Samos (also author of a History of Agathoclès ).
• Chronic of Chaldée , Bérose, priest mésopotamien writing in Greek.
• Aratos, poet alexandrine, author of the Phenomena .

Births

Death in -280

• Séleucos Ier, king of Syria, assassinated close to Lysimachéia by the king of Macedonia, Ptolémée Kéraunos, with old approximately 78 years.

• Érasistrate of Céos, doctor of Séleucos Ier, author of work on the blood circulation, one of the first to have practiced scientific dissections on human corpses.