249 BC

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249 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 249 BC
CCXLVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 505
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 75
- Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 35
Ancient Greek era 132nd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar 4502
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −841
Berber calendar 702
Buddhist calendar 296
Burmese calendar −886
Byzantine calendar 5260–5261
Chinese calendar 辛亥年 (Metal  Pig)
2448 or 2388
     to 
壬子年 (Water  Rat)
2449 or 2389
Coptic calendar −532 – −531
Discordian calendar 918
Ethiopian calendar −256 – −255
Hebrew calendar 3512–3513
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −192 – −191
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2852–2853
Holocene calendar 9752
Iranian calendar 870 BP – 869 BP
Islamic calendar 897 BH – 896 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2085
Minguo calendar 2160 before ROC
民前2160年
Nanakshahi calendar −1716
Seleucid era 63/64 AG
Thai solar calendar 294–295
Tibetan calendar 阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
−122 or −503 or −1275
     to 
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
−121 or −502 or −1274

Year 249 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Pullus (or, less frequently, year 505 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 249 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.

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