315 BC

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315 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 315 BC
CCCXV BC
Ab urbe condita 439
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 9
- Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, 9
Ancient Greek era 116th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4436
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −907
Berber calendar 636
Buddhist calendar 230
Burmese calendar −952
Byzantine calendar 5194–5195
Chinese calendar 乙巳年 (Wood  Snake)
2383 or 2176
     to 
丙午年 (Fire  Horse)
2384 or 2177
Coptic calendar −598 – −597
Discordian calendar 852
Ethiopian calendar −322 – −321
Hebrew calendar 3446–3447
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −258 – −257
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2786–2787
Holocene calendar 9686
Iranian calendar 936 BP – 935 BP
Islamic calendar 965 BH – 964 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2019
Minguo calendar 2226 before ROC
民前2226年
Nanakshahi calendar −1782
Thai solar calendar 228–229
Tibetan calendar 阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
−188 or −569 or −1341
     to 
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
−187 or −568 or −1340

Year 315 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Philo (or, less frequently, year 439 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 315 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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