los años 50

This page relates to the year -306 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

China

  • Beginning of the reign of Zhaoxiang (Bye-Siang), king of Qin (Tsin) (fine in -251).

  • the kingdom of Yue is destroyed by the kingdom of Chu.

Ancient Egypt

  • Beginning of the reign of Ptolémée {{Ier}} Sôter, king of Egypt (fine in -285).

World hellenistic

  • Head office of Rhodos by Démétrios Poliorcète.

  • decisive naval Victoire of Démétrios {{Ier}} Poliorcète on Ptolémée {{Ier}} Sôter with Salamine of Cyprus.

  • Antigone One-eyed the and its son Démétrios {{Ier}} Poliorcète take the title of king (Basileus), quickly imitated in that by the others Diadoque S (-306, -304).

Roman world

Economy & company

  • the hellenistic period opens a true arms race naval. Gigantic boats are built (Philopator builds vessels with forty rows of oarsmen) and fleets of trières and pentères multiply: Ptolémée {{Ier}} Sôter has squadrons from 150 to 200 units, Antiochos {{III}} of one hundred decked ships and two hundred light. The battles become heavier and less subtle, because of the difficulties of operation.

Art & culture

  • the Greek Philosophe Épicure founds a school of Philosophie in its garden with Athens. It professes there doctrines which comprise a theory of knowledge sensualist (canonical), a cosmology nuclear physicist, materialist and mechanist (physical) and a morals hedonist.

Births

Death

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