283 BC

Year 283 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dolabella and Maximus (or, less frequently, year 471 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 283 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:
283 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar283 BC
CCLXXXII BC
Ab urbe condita471
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 41
- PharaohPtolemy II Philadelphus, 1
Ancient Greek era124th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4468
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−875
Berber calendar668
Buddhist calendar262
Burmese calendar−920
Byzantine calendar5226–5227
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
2414 or 2354
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
2415 or 2355
Coptic calendar−566 – −565
Discordian calendar884
Ethiopian calendar−290 – −289
Hebrew calendar3478–3479
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−226 – −225
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2818–2819
Holocene calendar9718
Iranian calendar904 BP – 903 BP
Islamic calendar932 BH – 931 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2051
Minguo calendar2194 before ROC
民前2194年
Nanakshahi calendar−1750
Seleucid era29/30 AG
Thai solar calendar260–261
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
−156 or −537 or −1309
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
−155 or −536 or −1308

Events

Greece

  • Following Demetrius Poliorcetes' death in captivity as a prisoner of Seleucus, his son Antigonus assumes the title of King of Macedonia, though in name only, as King Lysimachus of Thrace is in control of Macedonia. Demetrius' remains are given to Antigonus and he is honoured with a grand funeral in Corinth. After this, Demetrius is interred in the town of Demetrias which he had founded.

Roman Republic

  • Consuls: Publius Cornelius Dolabella and Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus Maximus.
  • At the Battle of Lake Vadimo, Roman forces finally quell the allied Etruscans and Gauls. The Roman army is led by consul Publius Cornelius Dolabella. Rome is at last undisputed master of northern and central Italy.

Egypt

  • The canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, initially started but not completed by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II and repaired by the Persian king Darius I, is again repaired and made operational by Ptolemy II.
  • Ptolemy II enlarges the library at Alexandria and appoints the grammarian Zenodotus to collect and edit all the Greek poets.

China

  • General Lian Po of the State of Zhou defeats an army of the State of Qi and captures the city of Yangqin.[1]

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    Deaths

    References

    1. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Lian Po.
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