276 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
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

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

276 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	276 BC
Ab urbe condita	478
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4475
Bahá'í calendar	-2119–-2118
Bengali calendar	-868
Berber calendar	675
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	269
Burmese calendar	-913
Byzantine calendar	5233–5234
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (2361/2421) — to — 乙酉年 (2362/2422)
Coptic calendar	-559–-558
Ethiopian calendar	-283–-282
Hebrew calendar	3485–3486
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-219–-218
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2826–2827
Holocene calendar	9725
Iranian calendar	897 BP – 896 BP
Islamic calendar	925 BH – 924 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2058
Minguo calendar	2187 before ROC 民前2187年
Thai solar calendar	268

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)