263 BC

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263 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 263 BC
CCLXII BC
Ab urbe condita 491
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 61
- Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 21
Ancient Greek era 129th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4488
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −855
Berber calendar 688
Buddhist calendar 282
Burmese calendar −900
Byzantine calendar 5246–5247
Chinese calendar 丁酉年 (Fire  Rooster)
2434 or 2374
     to 
戊戌年 (Earth  Dog)
2435 or 2375
Coptic calendar −546 – −545
Discordian calendar 904
Ethiopian calendar −270 – −269
Hebrew calendar 3498–3499
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −206 – −205
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2838–2839
Holocene calendar 9738
Iranian calendar 884 BP – 883 BP
Islamic calendar 911 BH – 910 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2071
Minguo calendar 2174 before ROC
民前2174年
Nanakshahi calendar −1730
Seleucid era 49/50 AG
Thai solar calendar 280–281
Tibetan calendar 阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
−136 or −517 or −1289
     to 
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
−135 or −516 or −1288

Year 263 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mesella and Crassus (or, less frequently, year 491 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 263 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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  • Eumenes I succeeds his uncle Philetaerus to the throne of Pergamum. As Philetaerus was a eunuch, he adopted his nephew Eumenes (the son of Philetaerus' brother also named Eumenes) as his successor.

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References

  1. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Basic Annals of Qin, Section: Bai Qi.