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260 [Polybius. I. 21-23] - Consuls of the Gnei Cornelius Scipio Azina (patrician) and Guy Duilius (plebeian).
260 - 120 ships launched in Rome. 17 vessels were locked by the Carthaginians at Lipara and taken without a fight. The victory of the Roman fleet of Duilus over the superior Carthaginian at the Linar Islands (near Mil). The Carthaginians fled, losing up to 50 ships (almost half of the squadron). The first triumph for the naval victory (G. Duilius). A rostral column was erected in Rome. The expulsion of the Carthaginians from Corsica.
The Battle of the Aeolian Islands during the First Punic War, the victory of the Carthaginian fleet over the Roman .
The Battle of Mila during the First Punic War is a revenge of the Romans under the leadership of Guy Douilius .
C.260 - Cappadocia becomes independent of the Seleucids. Her ruler is the Persian Ariarat. Hostile relations with the Seleucids.
260–255 - The Second Syrian War.
Battle of Changping . The army of the Chinese state of Qin inflicted a crushing defeat on Zhao's army. The Qin commander Bai Qi lured into the gorge, surrounded and forced to surrender the 400 thousandth army of the Zhao people. Contrary to the promise to save the life of those who surrendered, Bai Qi ordered that all the prisoners be executed, buried alive in the ground.

Ying Zheng (Qin Shi Huangdi) , the future king of the Qin state and the first emperor of China.

Alexander II , king of Epirus (approximate year).
Filochor (c. 345 BC. - 260 BC) is an ancient Greek historian-attidograph, who held the position of a soothsayer priest in Athens.