Editing 274 BC

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Year '''274 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Dentatus and Merenda''' (or, less frequently, '''year 480 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 274 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* [[Pyrrhus of Epirus|Pyrrhus]] returns from [[Italy]] and [[Sicily]] and invades [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonia]] defeating [[Antigonus II Gonatas]] at the [[Battle of the Aous (274 BC)|Battle of the Aous]] and conquering Upper Macedonia and [[Thessaly]] while Antigonus holds onto the coastal Macedonian towns. Antigonus' troops desert him and Pyrrhus is declared King of Macedonia.

==== Roman Republic ====
* The [[Roman Republic|Romans]] under [[Manius Curius Dentatus]] conquer the [[Lucanians]].

==== Egypt ====
* [[Magas of Cyrene]] marries Apama, the daughter of [[Antiochus I Soter|Antiochus]] and uses his marital alliance to foment a pact to invade [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. He opens hostilities against his half brother [[Ptolemy II Philadelphus|Ptolemy II]], by declaring his province of [[Cyrenaica]] to be independent and then attacks Egypt from the west as Antiochus I takes the Egyptian controlled areas in coastal [[Syria]] and southern [[Anatolia]], after which he attacks [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
* Magas has to stop his advance against Ptolemy II due to an internal revolt by the [[Libya]]n Marmaridae nomads.
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== References ==
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