274 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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274 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 274 BC
CCLXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita 480
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 50
- Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 10
Ancient Greek era 126th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4477
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −866
Berber calendar 677
Buddhist calendar 271
Burmese calendar −911
Byzantine calendar 5235–5236
Chinese calendar 丙戌年 (Fire  Dog)
2423 or 2363
     to 
丁亥年 (Fire  Pig)
2424 or 2364
Coptic calendar −557 – −556
Discordian calendar 893
Ethiopian calendar −281 – −280
Hebrew calendar 3487–3488
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −217 – −216
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2827–2828
Holocene calendar 9727
Iranian calendar 895 BP – 894 BP
Islamic calendar 923 BH – 921 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2060
Minguo calendar 2185 before ROC
民前2185年
Nanakshahi calendar −1741
Seleucid era 38/39 AG
Thai solar calendar 269–270
Tibetan calendar 阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
−147 or −528 or −1300
     to 
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
−146 or −527 or −1299

Year 274 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dentatus and Merenda (or, less frequently, year 480 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 274 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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Greece

Roman Republic

Egypt

  • Magas of Cyrene marries Apama, the daughter of Antiochus and uses his marital alliance to foment a pact to invade Egypt. He opens hostilities against his half brother Ptolemy II, by declaring his province of Cyrenaica to be independent and then attacks Egypt from the west as Antiochus I takes the Egyptian controlled areas in coastal Syria and southern Anatolia, after which he attacks Palestine.
  • Magas has to stop his advance against Ptolemy II due to an internal revolt by the Libyan Marmaridae nomads.

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