-298

This page relates to the year -298 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

With Rome, Consul At of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus and Cn. Fulvius Maximus Centumalus.
Alliance between Romans and Lucaniens.
Third war samnite (fine in 291). Victoire of Cornelius Scipion on the Etruscan and the Gallic ones in Volaterrae (Volterra). The Etrurie is conquered.

Creation of the kingdom of Bithynie by Zipoïtès.
Démétrios Ier Poliorcète attacks Ptolémée Ier, undoubtedly with the support of his/her son-in-law, Séleucos Ier, and seizes Samarie and the Cœlé-Syria. An agreement however is rather quickly found.
the Celtes penetrate in Macedonia and Thrace.

Abdication of the first Indian emperor, Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the dynasty Maurya, which is withdrawn with Shravana-Belgola, close to Mysore, in current the Indian State of the Karnataka, where it is made monk jaina and where it will put an end to his days by making the ritual suicide jaïna by inanition.
His/her son Bindusâra succeeds to him until in -273. It subjects the kingdoms of the south of India, Chera (Kerala), Cola, and Satiyaputra. Its domination will remain nominal. It consolidates the organization of the empire and comes into contact with the king of Syria Antiochos Ier.

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