244 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	270s BC  260s BC  250s BC  – 240s BC –  230s BC  220s BC  210s BC
Years:	247 BC 246 BC 245 BC – 244 BC – 243 BC 242 BC 241 BC

244 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	244 BC
Ab urbe condita	510
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 80
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 3
Ancient Greek era	134th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4507
Bengali calendar	−836
Berber calendar	707
Buddhist calendar	301
Burmese calendar	−881
Byzantine calendar	5265–5266
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2453 or 2393     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2454 or 2394
Coptic calendar	−527 – −526
Discordian calendar	923
Ethiopian calendar	−251 – −250
Hebrew calendar	3517–3518
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−187 – −186
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2858–2859
Holocene calendar	9757
Iranian calendar	865 BP – 864 BP
Islamic calendar	892 BH – 891 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2090
Minguo calendar	2155 before ROC 民前2155年
Seleucid era	68/69 AG
Thai solar calendar	299–300

Year 244 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atticus and Blaesus (or, less frequently, year 510 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 244 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.

Events

By place

Greece

• Agis IV succeeds his father, Eudamidas II, as King of Sparta.
• The war in Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea intensifies as the Achaean League allies itself to Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt, while Seleucus II secures two allies in the Black Sea region. Ptolemy III's armies reach as far as Bactria and the borders of India in their attacks on the Seleucid Empire.
• By defeating the Egyptian fleet at Andros, Antigonus II is able to maintain his control over the Aegean Sea.

Carthage

• Hamilcar Barca transfers his army to the slopes of Mount Eryx (Monte San Giuliano), from which he is able to lend support to the besieged garrison in the neighbouring town of Drepanum (Trapani).

Births

Deaths

• Eudamidas II, king of Sparta

References