297 BC

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Years:	300 BC · 299 BC · 298 BC · 297 BC · 296 BC · 295 BC · 294 BC

297 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	297 BC CCXCVI BC
Ab urbe condita	457
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 27
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 27
Ancient Greek era	120th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4454
Bengali calendar	−889
Berber calendar	654
Buddhist calendar	248
Burmese calendar	−934
Byzantine calendar	5212–5213
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2400 or 2340     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2401 or 2341
Coptic calendar	−580 – −579
Discordian calendar	870
Ethiopian calendar	−304 – −303
Hebrew calendar	3464–3465
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−240 – −239
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2804–2805
Holocene calendar	9704
Iranian calendar	918 BP – 917 BP
Islamic calendar	946 BH – 945 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2037
Minguo calendar	2208 before ROC 民前2208年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1764
Seleucid era	15/16 AG
Thai solar calendar	246–247

Year 297 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rullianus and Mus (or, less frequently, year 457 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 297 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes consul for the fourth time. He defeats the Samnites in a battle near Tifernum.

Bithynia

• Zipoetes I assumes the title of basileus (king) in Bithynia.

Greece

• Following Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, succeeds his father as King of Macedon, but soon after coming to the throne suffers from a wasting disease and dies. Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother Alexander V.
• Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to Greece with the aim of becoming master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece, Lysimachus seizes his possessions in Asia Minor.
• Ptolemy decides to support Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman, Neoptolemus II of Epirus (who is a son of Cleopatra of Macedonia and a nephew of Alexander the Great), but soon he has him assassinated.

India

• Chandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola near Mysore to live in the way of Jains.
• Bindusara his son ascends to the Pataliputra throne.

Births

Deaths

• King Cassander of Macedon (one of the diadochoi ("successors"), the Macedonian generals who have fought over the empire of Alexander the Great after his death) (b. c. 358 BC)

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