294 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	320s BC  310s BC  300s BC  – 290s BC –  280s BC  270s BC  260s BC
Years:	297 BC 296 BC 295 BC – 294 BC – 293 BC 292 BC 291 BC

294 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	294 BC
Ab urbe condita	460
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 30
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 30
Ancient Greek era	121st Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4457
Bengali calendar	−886
Berber calendar	657
Buddhist calendar	251
Burmese calendar	−931
Byzantine calendar	5215–5216
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2403 or 2343     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2404 or 2344
Coptic calendar	−577 – −576
Discordian calendar	873
Ethiopian calendar	−301 – −300
Hebrew calendar	3467–3468
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−237 – −236
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2808–2809
Holocene calendar	9707
Iranian calendar	915 BP – 914 BP
Islamic calendar	943 BH – 942 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2040
Minguo calendar	2205 before ROC 民前2205年
Seleucid era	18/19 AG
Thai solar calendar	249–250

Year 294 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Megellus and Regulus (or, less frequently, year 460 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 294 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

• Archidamus IV, king of Sparta, son of Eudamidas I and grandson of Archidamus III, is defeated by Demetrius Poliorcetes of Macedonia in a battle at Mantinea. Sparta is saved only because Demetrius is called away by the threatening activities of his rivals Lysimachus and Ptolemy.
• Alexander V of Macedon is ousted by his brother, Antipater II. Therefore Alexander V turns to Demetrius Poliorcetes for help in recovering his throne. However, Demetrius Poliorcetes establishes himself on the throne of Macedonia and then murders Alexander V. Antipater II loses the throne of Macedonia but is able to survive.
• Pyrrhus of Epirus exploits the dynastic quarrel in Macedonia involving Alexander V of Macedon, his brother, Antipater II and Demetrius Poliorcetes to take over the frontier areas of Parauaea and Tymphaea, along with Acarnania, Ampholochia, and Ambracia.
• Lysimachus concludes a peace with Demetrius Poliorcetes whereby Demetrius Poliorcetes is recognized as ruler of Macedonia.

Egypt

• Ptolemy gains control over Cyprus and the Phoenician coastal towns of Tyre and Sidon.

Seleucid Empire

• Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and wife of Seleucus marries her stepson Antiochus. Seleucus has reportedly instigated the marriage after discovering that his son by his late wife Apama was in danger of dying of lovesickness as he has fallen in love with his beautiful stepmother.

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