260s BC

This article concerns the period 269 BC – 260 BC.

Births

269 BC

• Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamon, from 241 to 197 BC. He will be the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king (d. 197 BC).

268 BC

• Fu Sheng (Master Fu), Chinese Confusian scholar (d. 178 BC)
• Li Yiji, Chinese politician and adviser (d. 204 BC)

267 BC

• Berenice II, queen and co-regent of Egypt (or 266 BC)

266 BC

• Berenice II, queen and co-regent of Egypt (or 267 BC)

265 BC

• Agis IV, king of Sparta (approximate date)
• Ziaelas, king of Bithynia (approximate date)

263 BC

• Antigonus III Doson, king of Macedonia from 229 to 221 BC (d. 221 BC)

262 BC

• Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus), Greek astronomer and mathematician specialising in geometry and noted for his writings on conic sections (d. c. 190 BC)

260 BC

• Zheng, who will later become king of the State of Qin, and then later the First Emperor of China (d. 210 BC)

Deaths

267 BC

• Devanampiya Tissa, ruler of Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)

266 BC

• Huiwen of Zhao, Chinese king of Zhao (b. 310 BC)
• Mithridates I Ctistes, founder of the kingdom of Pontus

265 BC

• Alexinus, Greek philosopher of Elis
• Areus I, king of Sparta (killed in battle)
• Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, Roman consul
• Xiang of Qi, Chinese king of Qi (Warring States Period)
• Xuan, Chinese queen dowager of Chu (b. 338 BC)

263 BC

• Philetaerus, founder (reigned from 282 BC) of the Attalid kingdom of Pergamum, in northwest Asia Minor (b. c. 343 BC)
• Qingxiang of Chu, Chinese king of Chu (Warring States Period)

262 BC

• Antiochus I Soter, king of the Seleucid Kingdom from 281 BC (b. c. 323 BC)
• Acrotatus II, Agiad king of Sparta
• Philemon, Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy (b. c. 362 BC)
• Zeno of Citium, Hellenistic Stoic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus (b. 333 BC)

261 BC

• Antiochus I Soter, Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire (or 262 BC)

260 BC

• Hannibal Gisco, Carthaginian military commander in charge of both land armies and naval fleets (b. c. 300 BC)
• Orontes III, king of Armenia and Sophene (modern-day Turkey)
• Timocharis of Alexandria, Greek astronomer and philosopher
• Zhao Kuo, Chinese general of the State of Zhao