241 BC

Decades: 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC - 240s BC - 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• March 10 - Battle of the Aegates Islands, the Romans sinks the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.
• The number of Roman tribes is set at 35.
• Cleomenes III becomes king of Sparta.
• Attalus I becomes king of Pergamon.

• Agis IV of Sparta
• Eumenes I, king of Pergamon