Year 280 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laevinus and Coruncanius (or, less frequently...
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This article concerns the period 289 BC – 280 BC. The tyrant of Syracuse, Agathocles, dies after restoring the Syracusan democracy on his death bed by...
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last of the seven to be completed after 280 BC and the first to be destroyed by an earthquake in 226/225 BC. As such, it was already in ruins by the...
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Colossus of Rhodes (redirect from Colossus of Rhodes Collapse (226 BC))
of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was constructed to celebrate...
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of the Greek Titan Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes between 292 and 280 BC. Colossus of Rhodes may also refer to: The Colossus of Rhodes (Dalí), 1954...
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Publius Valerius Laevinus (category 3rd-century BC Roman consuls)
Laevinus was commander of the Roman forces at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC, in which he was defeated by Pyrrhus of Epirus. In his Life of Pyrrhus,...
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Battle of Heraclea (redirect from Battle of Heraclea (280 BC))
The Battle of Heraclea took place in 280 BC between the Romans under the command of consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, and the combined forces of Greeks...
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Magnesia (190 BC) Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus (consul 83 BC) Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, consul 298 BC and patrician censor 280 BC All pages with...
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301–280 BC Ariamnes II, 280–230 BC Possibly continuing a while under weak Seleucid suzerainty, title recognized as Kings: Ariarathes III, 255–220 BC, started...
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Seleucus becomes emperor of the Seleucid empire. 281 BC: Achaean League founded in Greece. 280 BC: King Pyrrhus of Epirus invades Italy in an attempt to...
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