236 BC

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Events

By place

Anatolia

Egypt

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Anatolia

★ Antiochus Hierax, supported by his mother Laodice I, allies himself with the Galatians (Celts) and two other states that are traditional foes of the Seleucid kingdom. With the aid of these forces, he inflicts a crushing defeat on his older brother Seleucus II's army at Ancyra in Anatolia. Seleucus leaves the country beyond the Taurus Mountains to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula.

Egypt

★ Eratosthenes is appointed by King Ptolemy III Euergetes as head and third librarian of the Alexandrian library.

Births

★ Scipio Africanus, Roman general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic (d. 183 BC) (approximate date).

Deaths

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