277 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:	280 BC 279 BC 278 BC – 277 BC – 276 BC 275 BC 274 BC

277 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	277 BC
Ab urbe condita	477
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 47
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 7
Ancient Greek era	125th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4474
Bengali calendar	−869
Berber calendar	674
Buddhist calendar	268
Burmese calendar	−914
Byzantine calendar	5232–5233
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 2420 or 2360     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2421 or 2361
Coptic calendar	−560 – −559
Discordian calendar	890
Ethiopian calendar	−284 – −283
Hebrew calendar	3484–3485
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−220 – −219
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2825–2826
Holocene calendar	9724
Iranian calendar	898 BP – 897 BP
Islamic calendar	926 BH – 925 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2057
Minguo calendar	2188 before ROC 民前2188年
Seleucid era	35/36 AG
Thai solar calendar	266–267

Year 277 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufinus and Brutus (or, less frequently, year 477 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 277 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

• Antigonus crosses the Hellespont and defeats the Celts under the command of Cerethrius at the Battle of Lysimachia near Lysimachia at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese. After this success, he is acknowledged by the Macedonians as their king.

Sicily

• Pyrrhus captures Eryx, the strongest Carthaginian fortress in Sicily. This prompts the rest of the Carthaginian-controlled cities in Sicily to defect to Pyrrhus.

Births

Deaths

• Sosthenes, Macedonian general

References