What is 230 BC?
{{Year nav|-230}} {{BC year in topic|230}} __NOTOC__ Year '''230 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. == Events == === By place === ==== Asia Minor ==== * The city of [[Pergamum]] is attacked by the [[Galatia]]ns ([[Celts]] who have settled in central [[Anatolia]]) because the leader of Pergamum, [[Attalus|Attalus I Soter]], has refused to pay them the customary tribute. Attalus defeats his enemy in a battle outside the walls of his city. To mark the success he takes the title of king and the name Soter. ==== Greece ==== * King [[Agron (king)|Agron]] of [[Illyria]] dies. [[Pinnes]], the son of Agron and Agron's first wife [[Triteuta]], succeeds his father as king. The kingdom is really ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen [[Teuta]] (Tefta). She removes the Greeks from the Illyrian coast. She then puts Illyrian pirate ships into the [[Ionian Sea]], against the Roman shipping. She keeps her husband's way of attacking cities on the west coast of [[Greece]]. ==== Roman Republic ==== * With [[Roman Republic|Roman]] merchants being killed by the Illyrian pirates, ships are sent by Rome to Illyria. The Roman ambassador [[lucius Coruncanius]] and the [[Vis (island)|Issa]]ean ambassador [[Cleemporus]] are murdered at sea. Then Romans take the island of [[Corcyra]]. ==== Egypt ==== * The Temple of Horus is built by King [[Ptolemy III Euergetes|Ptolemy III]]. ==== China ==== * The [[state of Han]] is conquered by the [[state of Qin]]. ==== India ==== * King Kubera rules [[Bhattiprolu]] in [[Guntur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]. {{births}} == Deaths == {{deaths2}} * [[Ad Herbal]], admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the [[Mediterranean Sea]] for [[Carthage]] in the [[First Punic War]] against [[Roman Republic|Rome]] * [[Aristarchus of Samos]], Greek astronomer and mathematician (b. c. [[310 BC]]) {{commons category}} [[Category:230s BC]]