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Year 266 BC was a year of the
pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pera and Pictor (or, less frequently, year 488 ''
Ab urbe condita
''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...
''). The denomination 266 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the
Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
* January 23 – Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Julius Libo celebrate triumphs over the Salentini
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.
* Calabria
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and Messapia are annexed by the Roman Republic.
Asia Minor
* Ariobarzanes becomes the second king of Pontus, succeeding his father Mithridates I Ctistes.
India
* The Mauryan emperor Ashoka converts to Buddhism.
Births
*
Berenice II
Berenice II Euergetis (267 or 266 BC – 221 BC; , '' Berenikē Euergetis'', "Berenice the Benefactress") was queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 BC to 246 BC and co-regent queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 246 BC to 222 BC as the wife of Ptolemy III ...
, queen and co-
regent of
Egypt (or
267 BC
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Year 267 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Regulus and Libo (or, less frequently, year 487 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 267 BC for this year has been use ...
)
Deaths
*
Huiwen of Zhao, Chinese king of
Zhao (b.
310 BC
31 may refer to:
* 31 (number)
Years
* 31 BC
* AD 31
* 1931 CE ('31)
* 2031 CE ('31)
Music
* ''Thirty One'' (Jana Kramer album), 2015
* ''Thirty One'' (Jarryd James album), 2015
* "Thirty One", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Wild, ...
)
*
Mithridates I Ctistes, founder of the
kingdom of Pontus
References
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