260 BC
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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
Decades: 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC - 260s BC - 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC
Years: 265 BC 264 BC 263 BC 262 BC 261 BC - 260 BC - 259 BC 258 BC 257 BC 256 BC 255 BC
Events
- Battle of Changping: the army of the Qin state routs the army of Zhao, establishing its military superiority over all other Chinese states.
- First Punic War:
- *Battle of the Lipara Islands: A Roman naval force under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina is defeated by the Carthaginians.
- *Battle of Mylae: A Roman naval force under Gaius Duillius, using the newly invented corvus, defeats the Carthaginian fleet, giving Rome control of the sea. Roman expeditionary forces then invaded Corsica and Sardinia
- Zheng, who will later become King of the State of Qin, and then later the First Emperor of China.
- Alexander II, king of Epirus (approximate year)
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