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Events

state routs the army of Zhao , establishing its military superiority over all other Chinese states.

First Punic War :

--- naval force under C. Cornelius Scipio is defeated by the Carthaginians .

--- naval force under Gaius Duillius , using the newly invented Corvus , defeats the Carthaginian fleet, giving Rome control of the sea. Roman expeditionary forces then invaded Corsica and Sardinia

Births

Zheng, who will later become King of the State Of Qin , and then later the First Emperor of China .

Deaths

Alexander II , king of Epirus (approximate year)