251 BC
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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
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Years: 256 BC 255 BC 254 BC 253 BC 252 BC - 251 BC - 250 BC 249 BC 248 BC 247 BC 246 BC
Events
- Alexander of Sicyon frees his city from Spartan control, then unites it to the Achaean League.
- First Punic War: Battle of Panormus - Carthaginian forces under Hasdrubal are defeated by the Romans under L. Caecilius Metellus.
- Carthaginian Senate again tries to make peace by sending the captured Roman general Regulus to Rome. Regulus instead advises the Roman Senate to reject all Carthaginian proposals, then honors his parole by returning voluntarily to Carthage, where he is tortured to death.
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