Year 250 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 Longus (or, less frequently...

The siege of Lilybaeum lasted for nine years, from 250 to 241 BC, as the Roman army laid siege to the Carthaginian-held Sicilian city of Lilybaeum (modern...

This article concerns the period 259 BC – 250 BC. The Seleucid king Antiochus II starts the Second Syrian War against Ptolemy II Philadelphus to avenge...

Macrophase 2b, from c.400 to 250 BC, and Macedonian siege to Barikot (Bazira) occurred within this period, in autum 327 BC. Also during Macrophase 2b,...

influence ceased in the area by c. 250 BC. Following the eviction of the Seleucid by the Parthian Empire in c. 250 BC, the latter gained dominion over the...

millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...

times the area of the previous largest civilisation around the year 3000 BC. Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population...

King (276–250 BC) Demetrius the Fair, King (250–249 BC) Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt (complete list) – Ptolemy I Soter, Pharaoh (305–283/282 BC) Ptolemy...

The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage. Three wars took place, on both land...

and the North Atlantic that ran from approximately 250 BC to AD 400. Theophrastus (371 – c. 287 BC) wrote that date trees could grow in Greece if they...