Number 300

300

This is the 300th post on Nan Hawthorne's Booking the Middle Ages!

Prime Factors of 300=2x2x3x5x5.

300 is a triangular number and the sum of a pair of twin primes (149 + 151), as well as the sum of ten consecutive primes (13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47). It is a Harshad number.

The Three Hundred, the name given to the Spartans who fought to the death at the Battle of Thermopylae (although two were sent away prior to the battle and survived, Aristodemus and Pantites Xerxes)
Movies about the Three Hundred and the battle:
300 Spartans (1962)
300 (2007)

In bowling, a perfect score, achieved by rolling strikes in all ten frames (a total of twelve strikes).

The lowest possible Fair Isaac credit score.

In cars:
Chrysler 300 (during the 1950s and 1960s, accompanied by a letter).
Nissan 300ZX

In paintball, 300 ft/s is the maximum legal velocity of a shot paintball.

Humans are born with 300 bones, but adults only have 206 bones because some fuse together naturally.

The Hill of Tara in Ireland: a monument are 300 postholes measuring two meters wide have been discovered.300 towering oak posts once surrounded the hill.

300 is the Spirit of God in numerology of the Bible Wheel.

The Old Three Hundred is a term used to describe the 297 grantees, made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men, who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin and established a colony in present day Brazoria County in southeast Texas.

The Year 300

BCE

Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus, is taken as a hostage to Egypt after the Battle of Ipsus and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of Ptolemy and Berenice.
Ptolemy concludes an alliance with King Lysimachus of Thrace and gives him his daughter Arsinoe II in marriage.
Seleucus founds the city of Antioch, some 20 miles up the Orontes River, naming it after his father.
After the death of his wife Apama, Seleucus marries Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
The central texts of Jainism, the Jain scriptures, are recorded (approximate date

Art

In Pella (in Macedonia), the artist Gnosis makes a mosaic floor decoration called Stag Hunt and even signs it with "Gnosis made it". It is today preserved at the Archaeological museum in Pella.

AD/CE

The Franks penetrate into what is now northern Belgium (approximate date).
The city of Split is built.
Diocletian's wall is built in Palmyra.
A Romano-Celtic temple-mausoleum complex is constructed in what is now Lullingstone, and also in Anderitum (approximate date).
The lion becomes extinct from Armenia around this date.
The elephant becomes extinct in North Africa from around this date.
The Algerian Wild Ass becomes extinct around this date.
The Mayan civilization reaches its most prolific period, the classic period, in what is now Guatemala, Belize and parts of southern Mexico adjacent to the former two. During most of this period, Tikal dominates the mayan world.

Arts and sciences
The magnetic compass for navigation is invented in China (approximate date).
The Panchatantra, a Sanskrit collection of fables and fairy tales, is written in India.
The Tetrarchs, are probably made in Egypt. After 330 are moved to Constantinople. In 1204 are installed at the corner of the facade of the St Mark's Basilica, Venice (approximate date).
Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia, is built. Its model is kept at Museo della Civiltá Romana, Rome.

Religion
Peter of Alexandria becomes Patriarch of Alexandria.
Possible date of the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, manuscripts of the Bible written in Greek.
Tiridates III makes his kingdom of Armenia the first state to adopt Christianity as its official religion.
Approximate date of the Synod of Elvira in Elvira, Spain, which was a church council that prohibited interaction with Jews, pagans, and heretics.

Births
Asanga, founder of the Yogacara of Mahayana Buddhism (approximate date)
Frumentius, Syrian Christian trader (approximate date)
Hilary of Poitiers (approximate date)
Li Shou, emperor of Cheng Han (d. 343)
Emperor Min of Jin (d. 318)

Deaths
December 28 — Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria
Sporus of Nicaea, Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)
Zhang Hua, official of the Jin Dynasty (b. 232)
Liu Ling (b. 221)
Empress Jia Nanfeng (b. 257)
Sima Yu (b. 278)

I will be 300 in the year 2252.