242 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	270s BC  260s BC  250s BC  – 240s BC –  230s BC  220s BC  210s BC
Years:	245 BC 244 BC 243 BC – 242 BC – 241 BC 240 BC 239 BC

242 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

242 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	242 BC
Ab urbe condita	512
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4509
Bahá'í calendar	-2085–-2084
Bengali calendar	-834
Berber calendar	709
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	303
Burmese calendar	-879
Byzantine calendar	5267–5268
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (2395/2455) — to — 己未年 (2396/2456)
Coptic calendar	-525–-524
Ethiopian calendar	-249–-248
Hebrew calendar	3519–3520
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-185–-184
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2860–2861
Holocene calendar	9759
Iranian calendar	863 BP – 862 BP
Islamic calendar	890 BH – 889 BH
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar
Korean calendar	2092
Minguo calendar	2153 before ROC 民前2153年
Thai solar calendar	302

Year 242 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Catulus and Albinus (or, less frequently, year 512 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 242 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

• The Roman consul and commander, Gaius Lutatius Catulus, blockades the Sicilian cities of Lilybaeum and Drepanum with a fleet of 200 ships.

Egypt

• The destruction of the Egyptian fleet by the Macedonians ends the naval supremacy of the Ptolemies but does not force them to relinquish their territories in Syria and the Aegean Sea.