268 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	290s BC  280s BC  270s BC  – 260s BC –  250s BC  240s BC  230s BC
Years:	271 BC 270 BC 269 BC – 268 BC – 267 BC 266 BC 265 BC

268 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

268 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	268 BC
Ab urbe condita	486
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4483
Bahá'í calendar	-2111–-2110
Bengali calendar	-860
Berber calendar	683
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	277
Burmese calendar	-905
Byzantine calendar	5241–5242
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (2369/2429) — to — 癸巳年 (2370/2430)
Coptic calendar	-551–-550
Ethiopian calendar	-275–-274
Hebrew calendar	3493–3494
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-211–-210
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2834–2835
Holocene calendar	9733
Iranian calendar	889 BP – 888 BP
Islamic calendar	916 BH – 915 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2066
Minguo calendar	2179 before ROC 民前2179年
Thai solar calendar	276

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.

Events

By place

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).

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 against Macedonia in Greece. He especially cultivates Athens by supplying the city with grain.

India

• Ashoka becomes emperor of the Maurya Empire.