240bc: Mar 30 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

241bc: First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing
the First Punic War to an end

293bc: The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica
(grape harvest festival)

322bc: Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.

323bc: Alexander The Great dies (356 to 323 bce)

331bc: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela

334bc: The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of
the Granicus

338bc: Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle
of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean

356bc: Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the
World

390bc: Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leads
to subsequent sacking of Rome

399bc: Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds
of the youth of the city and for impiety

413bc: Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about age 57

445bc: Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse).

479bc: Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius routed by Greek army
under Pausanias; together with Greek success at Battle of Mycale halts Persian invasion of Greece

480bc: Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae

480bc: The Spartans are defeated at Thermopolae (but they won the war)

480bc: Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes
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