230 BC

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230 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 230 BC
CCXXX BC
Ab urbe condita 524
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 94
- Pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes, 17
Ancient Greek era 137th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4521
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −822
Berber calendar 721
Buddhist calendar 315
Burmese calendar −867
Byzantine calendar 5279–5280
Chinese calendar 庚午年 (Metal  Horse)
2468 or 2261
     to 
辛未年 (Metal  Goat)
2469 or 2262
Coptic calendar −513 – −512
Discordian calendar 937
Ethiopian calendar −237 – −236
Hebrew calendar 3531–3532
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −173 – −172
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2871–2872
Holocene calendar 9771
Iranian calendar 851 BP – 850 BP
Islamic calendar 877 BH – 876 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2104
Minguo calendar 2141 before ROC
民前2141年
Nanakshahi calendar −1697
Seleucid era 82/83 AG
Thai solar calendar 313–314
Tibetan calendar 阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
−103 or −484 or −1256
     to 
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
−102 or −483 or −1255

Year 230 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbula and Pera (or, less frequently, year 524 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 230 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Asia Minor

  • The city of Pergamum is attacked by the Galatians (Celts who have settled in central Anatolia) because the leader of Pergamum, Attalus I Soter, has refused to pay them the customary tribute. Attalus crushes his enemy in a battle outside the walls of his city and to mark the success he takes the title of king and the name Soter.

Greece

  • King Agron of Illyria dies. Pinnes, the son of Agron and Agron's first wife Triteuta, officially succeeds his father as king, but the kingdom is effectively ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta (Tefta), who expels the Greeks from the Illyrian coast and then launches Illyrian pirate ships into the Ionian Sea, preying on Roman shipping. She continues her husband's policy of attacking cities on the west coast of Greece and practising large-scale piracy in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. [1]

Roman Republic

  • With Roman merchants being killed by the Illyrian pirates, envoys are sent by Rome to Illyria. After the Roman ambassador lucius Coruncanius and the Issaean ambassador Cleemporus are murdered at sea by Illyrian soldiers after causing offence to Queen Teuta, Roman forces occupy the island of Corcyra with the aim of humbling Teuta.

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References

  1. Schmitz, Michael.  Roman Conquests: The Danube Frontier . United Kingdom, Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2015. 3.