245 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC 3rd century BC 2nd century BC
Decades:	260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC
Years:	248 BC 247 BC 246 BC 245 BC 244 BC 243 BC 242 BC

245 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	245 BC CCXLV BC
Ab urbe condita	509
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 79
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 2
Ancient Greek era	133rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4506
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−837
Berber calendar	706
Buddhist calendar	300
Burmese calendar	−882
Byzantine calendar	5264–5265
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2453 or 2246     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2454 or 2247
Coptic calendar	−528 – −527
Discordian calendar	922
Ethiopian calendar	−252 – −251
Hebrew calendar	3516–3517
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−188 – −187
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2856–2857
Holocene calendar	9756
Iranian calendar	866 BP – 865 BP
Islamic calendar	893 BH – 892 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2089
Minguo calendar	2156 before ROC 民前2156年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1712
Seleucid era	67/68 AG
Thai solar calendar	298–299
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) −118 or −499 or −1271     — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) −117 or −498 or −1270

Year 245 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Buteo and Bulbus (or, less frequently, year 509 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 245 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

• Babylon and Susa fall to the Egyptian armies of Ptolemy III.
• Following a long engagement, Ptolemy III marries Berenice II, the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene; thereby reuniting Egypt and Cyrenaica.

Greece

• After the death of his nephew, Alexander of Corinth, Antigonus II gives Nicaea, Alexander's widow, to his son Demetrius in marriage. Through this action, Antigonus II regains Corinth which has been independent while under the rule of Alexander of Corinth.
• Aratus of Sicyon is elected general (strategos) of the Achaean League.

China

• The Qin general Pao Gong captures the Wei city of Juan.
• The Zhao general Lian Po captures the Wei city of Fanyang.

Births

• Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general and Younger brother of Hannibal (d. 207 BC)

Deaths

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek poet, grammarian, and author of the Argonautica, an epic in four books on the voyage of the Argonauts (b. c. 295 BC)