Year 285 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Canina and Lepidus (or, less frequently...

Aristotle (b. c. 372 BC) 285 BC Dicaearchus, Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author (b. c. 350 BC) Theophrastus, Greek...

philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and polymath (d. c. 285 BC) Megasthenes, Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer (approximate...

Greece. After initial successes, he was forced to surrender to Seleucus in 285 BC and later died in captivity. Lysimachus, who had seized Macedon and Thessaly...

Crates (Greek: Κράτης ὁ Θηβαῖος; c. 365 – c. 285 BC) of Thebes was a Greek Cynic philosopher, the principal pupil of Diogenes of Sinope and the husband...

of 285 tractors The calendar years 285 AD and 285 BC. In the French Republican calendar, The year 285 would be a year 9 cycle and be in 2077. 285 Regina...

history. Broughton concludes that they must have held office between 292 and 285 BC, and lists them under the latest possible date. The third of three dictators...

by a period without settlement until around 285 BC. After his reign began, Pharaoh Ptolemy II (285 to 246 BC) began to desilt and renovate the Bubastis...

418–414 BC, the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn to 290–285 BC. He was the husband of the presumed goddess Flidais of the Tuatha Dé Danann...

successor civilization to the Olmecs in Mesoamerica. 285 BC: The Pharos of Alexandria is completed. 281 BC: Antiochus I Soter, on the assassination of his...