5 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
South Asia (3)
By a stratagem of a yakkhini, Pandukabhaya attacked his eight uncles and their army and piled up heaps of skulls. (Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka) 10.66-72)tradition
In the palace of Anuradha, husband of his great-aunt, Pandukabhaya founded the capital Anuradhapura as the astrologer had foretold. (Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka) 10.73-76)tradition
Pandukabhaya washed his uncles' parasols in pond water, had himself consecrated, and made Suvannapali his queen. (Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka) 10.77-78)tradition
West Asia (1)
He sails to the Black Sea with a great fleet and looks after the Greek cities (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Pericles 20)
Southern Europe (1)
Cossus kills the king of Veii and, with his head on a spear, throws the enemy into panic and routs them (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 4.19)tradition