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234 BC

234 BC

Calendar year


Year 234 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Albinus and Ruga (or, less frequently, year 520 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 234 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.

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  • The Qin general Huan Yi wins a major victory over the Zhao general Hu Zhe in the Battle of Pingyang, and captures Pingyang and Wucheng.[3]

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References

  1. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. x. p. 451. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Scullard, Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII, part 2, pp. 566–568.
  3. Bodde, Derk (1987), "The State and Empire of Qin", in Twitchett, Denis; Loewe, Michael (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, vol. I: the Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC – AD 220, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 27, ISBN 0-521-24327-0.

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