263 BC

Year 263 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mesella and Crassus (or, less frequently, year 491 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 263 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:
263 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar263 BC
CCLXII BC
Ab urbe condita491
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 61
- PharaohPtolemy II Philadelphus, 21
Ancient Greek era129th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4488
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−855
Berber calendar688
Buddhist calendar282
Burmese calendar−900
Byzantine calendar5246–5247
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
2434 or 2374
     to 
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
2435 or 2375
Coptic calendar−546 – −545
Discordian calendar904
Ethiopian calendar−270 – −269
Hebrew calendar3498–3499
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−206 – −205
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2838–2839
Holocene calendar9738
Iranian calendar884 BP – 883 BP
Islamic calendar911 BH – 910 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2071
Minguo calendar2174 before ROC
民前2174年
Nanakshahi calendar−1730
Seleucid era49/50 AG
Thai solar calendar280–281
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
−136 or −517 or −1289
     to 
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
−135 or −516 or −1288

Events

Roman Republic

  • The Romans under the consul Manius Valerius Messalla secure the alliance of Hiero II of Syracuse. The treaty with Rome restricts Hiero's kingdom to southeast Sicily and the eastern coast of Sicily as far as Tauromenium. From this date until his death, Hiero remains loyal to the Romans.
  • The Romans capture Hadranum.

Greece

  • Alexander II of Epirus attacks and conquers the greater part of Macedonia. However, he is then driven out of both Macedonia and Epirus by Demetrius II, the son of King Antigonus II Gonatas of Macedonia.
  • The Athenians and Spartans, worn down by several years of war and the devastation of their lands, make peace with Antigonus II of Macedonia who thus retains his hold on southern Greece.
  • Cleanthes succeeds Zeno of Citium in his Stoic School in Athens.

Asia Minor

  • Eumenes I succeeds his uncle Philetaerus to the throne of Pergamum. As Philetaerus was a eunuch, he adopted his nephew Eumenes (the son of Philetaerus' brother also named Eumenes) as his successor.

China

  • General Bai Qi of the State of Qin captures the Han province of Nan, thereby cutting off Shangdang Commandery from the rest of the Han state. This commandery subsequently surrenders itself to the State of Zhao rather than transfer to Qin control, which will set up the climactic Battle of Changping in 260 BC.[1]

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Deaths

References

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