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=== By place ===

==== Seleucid Empire ====
* The [[Seleucid]] king, [[Demetrius I Soter]] defeats a Jewish rebellion at [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Demetrius-I-Soter | access-date=February 26, 2024 | title=Demetrius I Soter | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>
* In response to the [[Jew]]ish high priest, [[Alcimus]]', request for assistance, the Seleucid general Bacchides leads an army into [[Judea]] with the intent of reconquering this now independent kingdom. Bacchides rapidly marches through Judea after carrying out a massacre of the [[Assideans]] in [[Galilee]]. He quickly makes for [[Jerusalem]], besieging the city and trapping [[Judas Maccabeus]], the spiritual and military leader of the [[Maccabees]], inside. However, Judas and many of his supporters manage to escape the siege.
* Judas Maccabeus and many of his supporters regroup to face the Seleucid forces in the [[Battle of Elasa]] (near modern day [[Ramallah]]). Greatly outnumbered, the Maccabees are defeated and Judas Maccabeus is killed during the battle.
* Judas Maccabeus is succeeded as army commander and leader of the [[Maccabees]] by his younger brother, [[Jonathan Maccabeus]].
* Demetrius I defeats and kills the rebel general [[Timarchus]] and is recognized as king of the Seleucid empire by the [[Roman Senate]]. Demetrius acquires his surname of Soter (meaning ''Saviour'') from the [[Babylonia]]ns, for delivering them from the tyranny of Timarchus. The Seleucid empire is temporarily united again.
* The [[Parthia]]n King, [[Mithradates I]], seizes [[Medes|Media]] from the [[Seleucid]]s following the death of Timarchus.

==== Bactria ====
* The king of [[Bactria]], [[Eucratides I]], is considered to have killed [[Apollodotus I]], an Indo-Greek king who rules the western and southern parts of the Indo-Greek kingdom, when he invades the western territories of that kingdom.

==== China ====
* A ''Painted banner'', from the tomb of the wife of the [[Marquis of Dai]], of the [[Han dynasty]], in [[Mawangdui]], [[Changsha]], [[Hunan]], is made (approximate date). It is nowadays preserved at the Historical museum in [[Beijing]].

==== Armenia ====
* [[Artavasdes I of Armenia|Artavasdes I]] succeeds his father [[Artaxias I]] as king of [[Armenia]].

==== Roman Republic ====
* The [[Roman Republic|Roman]] playwright [[Terence]]'s play ''[[Adelphoe]]'' (The Brothers) is first performed<ref>{{cite web | title=Terence | first=W. Geoffrey | last=Arnott | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terence | access-date=February 24, 2024 | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> at the funeral of the Roman general, [[Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus]].
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