283 BC

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283 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 283 BC
CCLXXXII BC
Ab urbe condita 471
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 41
- Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 1
Ancient Greek era 124th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4468
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −875
Berber calendar 668
Buddhist calendar 262
Burmese calendar −920
Byzantine calendar 5226–5227
Chinese calendar 丁丑年 (Fire  Ox)
2414 or 2354
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth  Tiger)
2415 or 2355
Coptic calendar −566 – −565
Discordian calendar 884
Ethiopian calendar −290 – −289
Hebrew calendar 3478–3479
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −226 – −225
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2818–2819
Holocene calendar 9718
Iranian calendar 904 BP – 903 BP
Islamic calendar 932 BH – 931 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2051
Minguo calendar 2194 before ROC
民前2194年
Nanakshahi calendar −1750
Seleucid era 29/30 AG
Thai solar calendar 260–261
Tibetan calendar 阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
−156 or −537 or −1309
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
−155 or −536 or −1308

Year 283 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dolabella and Maximus (or, less frequently, year 471 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 283 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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  • Ptolemy II enlarges the library at Alexandria and appoints the grammarian Zenodotus to collect and edit all the Greek poets.

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