275 BCE

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Years: 280 BC 279 BC 278 BC 277 BC 276 BC - 275 BC - 274 BC 273 BC 272 BC 271 BC 270 BC

• The inhabitants of Babylon are moved elsewhere. End of the city.
• Battle of Beneventum: the Romans under Manius Curius Dentatus finally defeat Pyrrhus.

Births

Deaths

• Euclid, mathematician (approximate date)
• Shen Dao, Chinese Legalist itinerant philisopher

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