268 BC

Year 268 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sophus and Russus (or, less frequently, year 486 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 268 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
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268 BC by topic
Politics
Categories
  • Births
268 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar268 BC
CCLXVII BC
Ab urbe condita486
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 56
- PharaohPtolemy II Philadelphus, 16
Ancient Greek era128th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar4483
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−860
Berber calendar683
Buddhist calendar277
Burmese calendar−905
Byzantine calendar5241–5242
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
2429 or 2369
    — to —
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
2430 or 2370
Coptic calendar−551 – −550
Discordian calendar899
Ethiopian calendar−275 – −274
Hebrew calendar3493–3494
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−211 – −210
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2833–2834
Holocene calendar9733
Iranian calendar889 BP – 888 BP
Islamic calendar916 BH – 915 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2066
Minguo calendar2179 before ROC
民前2179年
Nanakshahi calendar−1735
Seleucid era44/45 AG
Thai solar calendar275–276
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
−141 or −522 or −1294
    — to —
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
−140 or −521 or −1293

Events

Roman Republic
  • The Roman denarius coin is minted for the first time.
  • The Romans found a colony at Malventum which they, for superstitious reasons, call Beneventum (since male means bad and bene means good in Latin).
  • The Romans found a colony at Ariminum.

Greece
  • Chremonides, an Athenian statesman and general, issues the Decree of Chremonides, creating an alliance between Sparta, Athens, and Ptolemy II of Egypt. The origins of this alliance lay in the continuing desire of many Greek states, notably Athens and Sparta, for a restoration of their former independence, along with the desire of Ptolemy II to create troubles for his rival Antigonus II, King of Macedonia. Ptolemy II's ambitions in the Aegean Sea are threatened by Antigonus Gonatas' fleet, so he carefully builds up a coalition of the rest of the Greeks against Macedonians. He especially cultivates Athens by supplying the city with grain.

India

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