276 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 4th century BC · 3rd century BC · 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 300s BC · 290s BC · 280s BC · 270s BC · 260s BC · 250s BC · 240s BC |
| Years: | 279 BC · 278 BC · 277 BC · 276 BC · 275 BC · 274 BC · 273 BC |
| 276 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 276 BC CCLXXV BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 478 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 48 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 8 |
| Ancient Greek era | 126th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 4475 |
| Bengali calendar | −868 |
| Berber calendar | 675 |
| Buddhist calendar | 269 |
| Burmese calendar | −913 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5233–5234 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2421 or 2361 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2422 or 2362 |
| Coptic calendar | −559 – −558 |
| Discordian calendar | 891 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −283 – −282 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3485–3486 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −219 – −218 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2825–2826 |
| Holocene calendar | 9725 |
| Iranian calendar | 897 BP – 896 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 925 BH – 924 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2058 |
| Minguo calendar | 2187 before ROC 民前2187年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1743 |
| Seleucid era | 36/37 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 267–268 |
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Year 276 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gurges and Clepsina (or, less frequently, year 478 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 276 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
Egypt
- The Egyptian King Ptolemy II's first wife, Arsinoe I (daughter of the late King Lysimachus of Thrace) is accused, probably at instigation of Ptolemy II's sister (who also has the name Arsinoe), of plotting his murder and is exiled by the King. Arsinoe then marries her own brother, a customary practice in Egypt, but scandalous to the Greeks. The suffix "Philadelphoi" ("Brother-Loving") consequently is added to the names of King Ptolemy II and Queen Arsinoe II. The former queen, Arsinoe I, is banished to Coptos, a city of Upper Egypt near the Wadi Hammamat, while her rival adopts her children.
- The first of the Syrian Wars starts between Egypt's Ptolemy II and Seleucid emperor Antiochus I Soter. The Egyptians invade northern Syria, but Antiochus defeats and repels his opponent's army.
Sicily
- Pyrrhus negotiates with the Carthaginians to end the fighting between them in Sicily. The Carthaginians are inclined to come to terms with Pyrrhus, but he demands that Carthage abandon all of Sicily and make the Libyan Sea the boundary between Carthage and the Greeks. Meanwhile, he begins to display despotic behaviour towards the Sicilian Greeks and soon Sicilian opinion moves against him. Therefore, fearing that his successes in Sicily may lead him to become the despot of their country, the Syracusans ask Pyrrhus to leave Sicily. He does so, and returns to the Italian mainland, noting that he expects Sicily to be a "fair wrestling ring" for Carthage and Rome.
Births
- Eratosthenes, Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer (d. 194 BC)
Deaths
References
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