Year 240 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Centho and Tuditanus (or, less frequently...

This article concerns the period 249 BC – 240 BC. The Battle of Drepana involves the Romans, under the command of the Roman consul Publius Claudius Pulcher...

According to Maha Bodhi Society, she was married to Ashoka during c. 270-240 BC. She was a trusted, faithful, and favourite wife of Ashoka. She is often...

been observed and recorded by astronomers around the world since at least 240 BC, but it was not until 1705 that the English astronomer Edmond Halley understood...

323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and...

Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca and a rebel force led by Spendius in 240 BC in what is now north-east Tunisia. Carthage was fighting a coalition of...

later lists by the historian Herodotus (c. 484 BC–c. 425 BC) and the poet Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305–240 BC), housed at the Museum of Alexandria, survive...

campaigns in Sicily, was given joint command of the army in 240 BC and supreme command in 239 BC. He campaigned successfully, initially demonstrating leniency...

consulship in 240 BC, together with Gaius Claudius Centho as his colleague. Not much is known of his consulship. He served as censor in 230 BC. Publius Sempronius...

group theory Eratosthenes, who calculated the diameter of the Earth around 240 BC. Graph or network diameter – Length of shortest path between two nodes of...