Year 249 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Pullus (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...

Publius Claudius Pulcher (died 249 BC or 246 BC) was a Roman politician. Pulcher was the son of Appius Claudius Caecus. He was the first of the Claudii...

Demetrius the Fair or the Handsome (Greek: Δημήτριος ὁ Καλός, c. 285 BC–249 BC), known in modern ancient historical sources as Demetrius of Cyrene, was...

BC Republican government 249–246 BC In 249 BC Cyrene again became a republic, but was restored to Ptolemaic control in 246 BC by Ptolemy III who married...

fell to Qin forces in 256 BC. Ji Zhao, a son of King Nan, led a resistance against Qin for five years. The dukedom fell in 249 BC. The remaining Ji family...

period in Chinese history (c. 475–221 BC) comprises the final centuries of the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 256 BC), which were characterized by warfare,...

Gōng) (?–249 BC), personal name Jī Jié, reigned as King Hui of Zhou over the remaining rump state of the Zhou dynasty from 255 BC to 249 BC, when he was...

Sicily. It was the site of a crushing Roman defeat by the Carthaginians in 249 BC. It eventually developed into the modern Italian city of Trapani. Drepana...

until 580 BC under Chu Western Zhou (state) (西周; 440–256 BC), one of the Warring States in modern western Henan Eastern Zhou (state) (東周; 367–249 BC), one...