- 234 BC
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Events
By place
Greece
* The Epirote Alliance is replaced by the Epirote League, which is a federal state with its own parliament (or synedrion).
* The city of Pleuron is destroyed by Demetrius II.
* After the resignation of Lydiades, the city of Megalopolis joins the Achaean League.Roman Republic
*
Corsica ,Sardinia andLiguria rebel unsuccessfully against Rome.China
* 100,000 Zhao soldiers are killed in the
Battle of Pingyang .
* Ch'in Shin Haung Ti (King Cheng) begins the unification of China.
* The construction of the Great Wall begins.India
* The third Buddhist Council (Sangayana) is held in Patna.
Births
* Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder), Roman statesman, (d.
149 BC )
* Mete Khan,Xiongnu emperor, (d.174 BC )Deaths
*
Pharnavaz I of Iberia , King of Georgia
*Zenodotus of Ephesus , first librarian of theLibrary of Alexandria
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