241 BCE - Definition and Overview

Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC

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

246 BC 245 BC 244 BC 243 BC 242 BC - 241 BC - 240 BC 239 BC 238 BC 237 BC 236 BC

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.

Births

Deaths

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