289 BC

Year 289 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corvus and Noctua (or, less frequently, year 465 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 289 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:
Years:
289 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar289 BC
CCLXXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita465
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 35
- PharaohPtolemy I Soter, 35
Ancient Greek era122nd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4462
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−881
Berber calendar662
Buddhist calendar256
Burmese calendar−926
Byzantine calendar5220–5221
Chinese calendar辛未年 (Metal Goat)
2408 or 2348
     to 
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
2409 or 2349
Coptic calendar−572 – −571
Discordian calendar878
Ethiopian calendar−296 – −295
Hebrew calendar3472–3473
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−232 – −231
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2812–2813
Holocene calendar9712
Iranian calendar910 BP – 909 BP
Islamic calendar938 BH – 937 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2045
Minguo calendar2200 before ROC
民前2200年
Nanakshahi calendar−1756
Seleucid era23/24 AG
Thai solar calendar254–255
Tibetan calendar阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
−162 or −543 or −1315
     to 
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
−161 or −542 or −1314

Events

Sicily

  • The tyrant of Syracuse, Agathocles, dies after restoring the Syracusan democracy on his death bed by stating that he does not want his sons to succeed him as king. However, the resulting dissension among his family about the succession leads to a renewal of Carthaginian power in Sicily.

China

  • General Sima Cuo of the State of Qin attacks the State of Wei, recaptures the city of Yuan and captures the cities of Heyong and Jueqiao.[1]

Deaths

References

  1. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Basic Annals of Qin.
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