268 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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268 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 268 BC
CCLXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 486
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 56
- Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 16
Ancient Greek era 128th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4483
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −860
Berber calendar 683
Buddhist calendar 277
Burmese calendar −905
Byzantine calendar 5241–5242
Chinese calendar 壬辰年 (Water  Dragon)
2430 or 2223
     to 
癸巳年 (Water  Snake)
2431 or 2224
Coptic calendar −551 – −550
Discordian calendar 899
Ethiopian calendar −275 – −274
Hebrew calendar 3493–3494
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −211 – −210
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2833–2834
Holocene calendar 9733
Iranian calendar 889 BP – 888 BP
Islamic calendar 916 BH – 915 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2066
Minguo calendar 2179 before ROC
民前2179年
Nanakshahi calendar −1735
Seleucid era 44/45 AG
Thai solar calendar 275–276
Tibetan calendar 阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
−141 or −522 or −1294
     to 
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
−140 or −521 or −1293

Year 268 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sophus and Russus (or, less frequently, year 486 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 268 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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Roman Republic

  • The Roman denarius coin is minted for the first time.
  • The Romans found a colony at Malventum which they, for superstitious reasons, call Beneventum (since male means bad and bene means good in Latin).
  • The Romans found a colony at Ariminum.

Greece

  • Chremonides, an Athenian statesman and general, issues the Decree of Chremonides, creating an alliance between Sparta, Athens, and Ptolemy II of Egypt. The origins of this alliance lay in the continuing desire of many Greek states, notably Athens and Sparta, for a restoration of their former independence, along with the desire of Ptolemy II to create troubles for his rival Antigonus II, King of Macedonia. Ptolemy II's ambitions in the Aegean Sea are threatened by Antigonus Gonatas' fleet, so he carefully builds up a coalition of the rest of the Greeks against Macedonians. He especially cultivates Athens by supplying the city with grain.

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