230 BC Facts for Kids

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	260s BC 250s BC 240s BC – 230s BC – 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC
Years:	233 BC 232 BC 231 BC – 230 BC – 229 BC 228 BC 227 BC

230 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

230 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	230 BC CCXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	524
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 94
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 17
Ancient Greek era	137th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4521
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−822
Berber calendar	721
Buddhist calendar	315
Burmese calendar	−867
Byzantine calendar	5279–5280
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2467 or 2407 — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2468 or 2408
Coptic calendar	−513 – −512
Discordian calendar	937
Ethiopian calendar	−237 – −236
Hebrew calendar	3531–3532
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−173 – −172
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2871–2872
Holocene calendar	9771
Iranian calendar	851 BP – 850 BP
Islamic calendar	877 BH – 876 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2104
Minguo calendar	2141 before ROC 民前2141年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1697
Seleucid era	82/83 AG
Thai solar calendar	313–314
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) −103 or −484 or −1256 — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) −102 or −483 or −1255

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

Events

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.

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.

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.

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)