275 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	300s BC  290s BC  280s BC  – 270s BC –  260s BC  250s BC  240s BC
Years:	278 BC 277 BC 276 BC – 275 BC – 274 BC 273 BC 272 BC

275 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	275 BC
Ab urbe condita	479
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 49
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 9
Ancient Greek era	126th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4476
Bengali calendar	−867
Berber calendar	676
Buddhist calendar	270
Burmese calendar	−912
Byzantine calendar	5234–5235
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2422 or 2362     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 2423 or 2363
Coptic calendar	−558 – −557
Discordian calendar	892
Ethiopian calendar	−282 – −281
Hebrew calendar	3486–3487
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−218 – −217
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2827–2828
Holocene calendar	9726
Iranian calendar	896 BP – 895 BP
Islamic calendar	924 BH – 923 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2059
Minguo calendar	2186 before ROC 民前2186年
Seleucid era	37/38 AG
Thai solar calendar	268–269

Year 275 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dentamus and Caudinus (or, less frequently, year 479 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 275 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

Egypt

• The Museum of Alexandria is founded by the Egyptian King Ptolemy II.

Roman Republic

• When Pyrrhus returns from Sicily, he finds himself vastly outnumbered by a superior Roman army under the command of consul Manius Curius Dentatus. After the inconclusive Battle of Beneventum, Roman commander and statesman, Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, negotiates a peace with Pyrrhus, after which Pyrrhus decides to end his campaign in Italy and return to Epirus, which results in the loss of all his Italian holdings.

Sicily

• Following the departure of Pyrrhus from Sicily, the Syracusan army and the city's citizens appoint Hiero II as the commander of their slaves. He strengthens his position by marrying the daughter of Leptines, the city's leading citizen.

Greece

• Antiochus's alliance with Antigonus II, now fully in possession of Macedonia, is cemented by Antigonus's marriage to Phila, Antiochus's half sister.

Births

• Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Roman dictator, politician and leader (approximate date) (d. 203 BC)

Deaths

• Shen Dao, Chinese philosopher from Zhao who also served at the Jixia academy in Qi. He is known for his blend of Legalism and Taoism (approximate date) (b. c. 350 BC

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