230 BC

Year 230 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. 

 Events 
 By place 
 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 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 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 merchants being killed by the Illyrian pirates, ships are sent by Rome to Illyria. The Roman ambassador lucius Coruncanius and the Issaean ambassador Cleemporus are murdered at sea. Then Romans take the island of Corcyra.

 Egypt 
 The Temple of Horus is built by King Ptolemy III.

 China 
 The state of Han is conquered by the state of Qin.

 India 
 King Kubera rules Bhattiprolu in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.

 Deaths 

 Ad Herbal, admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the Mediterranean Sea for Carthage in the First Punic War against Rome
 Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 310 BC)

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