265 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	290s BC  280s BC  270s BC  – 260s BC –  250s BC  240s BC  230s BC
Years:	268 BC 267 BC 266 BC – 265 BC – 264 BC 263 BC 262 BC

265 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	265 BC
Ab urbe condita	489
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 59
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 19
Ancient Greek era	128th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4486
Bengali calendar	−857
Berber calendar	686
Buddhist calendar	280
Burmese calendar	−902
Byzantine calendar	5244–5245
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2432 or 2372     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2433 or 2373
Coptic calendar	−548 – −547
Discordian calendar	902
Ethiopian calendar	−272 – −271
Hebrew calendar	3496–3497
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−208 – −207
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2837–2838
Holocene calendar	9736
Iranian calendar	886 BP – 885 BP
Islamic calendar	913 BH – 912 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2069
Minguo calendar	2176 before ROC 民前2176年
Seleucid era	47/48 AG
Thai solar calendar	278–279

Year 265 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gurges and Vitulus (or, less frequently, year 489 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 265 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

• Although the Egyptian fleet blockades the Saronic Gulf, the Macedonian King Antigonus II defeats the Spartans and kills the King of Sparta, Areus I near Corinth, after which he besieges Athens.
• Acrotatus II succeeds his father Areus I as king of Sparta.

Italy

• Hiero II threatens to renew his attack on the Mamertines. They appeal to Carthage and receive the support of a Carthaginian garrison. The Mamertines also appeal to the Romans who are also willing to help.
• The Battle of Messana (265-264 BCE) takes place as the first military clash between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
• The Etruscan city of Volsinii was brought under Roman control.

By topic

Arts & sciences

• The Archimedes screw for raising water is devised by the Greek mathematician Archimedes, who is studying at Alexandria.

Births

Deaths

• Areus I, King of Sparta

References