Timeline: 3rd century BCE
| Years: c. 300 BCE - c. 200 BCE | Subject: History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE) |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191735417 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 300 BCE | Go to Hinduism in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Celt in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: The Greek author Theophrastus writes On the History of Plants, the earliest surviving work on botany Go to Theophrastus (c. 372 bc–287 bc) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Roman legion in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mafia [Crime] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Vestal virgin in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ramayana in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Epicureanism in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Phoenicians in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 300 BCE - CE 100 | Go to Paracas Culture in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 299 BCE | Go to testudo in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Seleucids in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 281 BCE | Go to Pyrrhus of Epiros (319–272 bc) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 280 BCE | Go to diaspora in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: The Alexandrian school of medicine develops an alarming form of clinical anatomy – human vivisection Go to Herophilus in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Alexandria, Egypt in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: See this event in other timelines: |
| 272 BCE | Go to Aśoka in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 270 BCE | Go to Aristarchus of Samos (c.320–c.250 bc) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 264 BCE | Go to Punic wars in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 260 BCE | Go to Alexandrian Library in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to quinquereme in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to quinquereme in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 250 BCE | Go to Ctesi'bius in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Archimedes' principle in A New Dictionary of Eponyms (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Aśoka in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to crossbow in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to alchemy in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Berruguete, Alonso (c.1488–1561) in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Roman numeral in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Aśoka in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Archimedes' screw in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 241 BCE | Go to Punic wars in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sicily in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 240 BCE | Go to Punic wars in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 239 BCE | Go to Berenice (3) II in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 228 BCE | Go to Hamilcar Barca (c.229 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 227 BCE | Go to Sardinia in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 225 BCE | Go to Hasdrubal(1) in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 221 BCE | Go to Zhou in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Qin in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hannibal (c.247–c.183 bc) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 220 BCE | Go to Eratosthenes of Cyrene (275–195bc ) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 218 BCE | Go to Punic wars in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 217 BCE | Go to Lake Trasimene, battle of (217 bc) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 216 BCE | Go to Cannae, Battle of (216 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 215 BCE | Go to Great Wall of China, China in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 213 BCE | Go to Shi Huangdi (259–210 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 207 BCE | Go to Dong Son Culture in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 206 BCE | Go to Shi Huangdi (259–210 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 202 BCE | Go to Zama, battle of in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 201 BCE | Go to Punic wars in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 200 BCE | Go to Pergamum in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: See this event in other timelines: Go to stirrups in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Polynesians in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Palmyra in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mochica in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
