289 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	310s BC  300s BC  290s BC  – 280s BC –  270s BC  260s BC  250s BC
Years:	292 BC 291 BC 290 BC – 289 BC – 288 BC 287 BC 286 BC

289 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

289 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	289 BC
Ab urbe condita	465
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4462
Bahá'í calendar	-2132–-2131
Bengali calendar	-881
Berber calendar	662
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	256
Burmese calendar	-926
Byzantine calendar	5220–5221
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (2348/2408) — to — 壬申年 (2349/2409)
Coptic calendar	-572–-571
Ethiopian calendar	-296–-295
Hebrew calendar	3472–3473
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-232–-231
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2813–2814
Holocene calendar	9712
Iranian calendar	910 BP – 909 BP
Islamic calendar	938 BH – 937 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2045
Minguo calendar	2200 before ROC 民前2200年
Thai solar calendar	255

Year 289 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corvus and Noctua (or, less frequently, year 465 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 289 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

Sicily

• The tyrant of Syracuse, Agathocles, dies after restoring the Syracusan democracy on his death bed, by stating that he does not want his sons to succeed him as king. However, the resulting dissension among his family about the succession leads to a renewal of Carthaginian power in Sicily.

Deaths

• Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily from 317 BC and self-styled king of Sicily after 304 BC (b. 361 BC)
• Mencius (Mèng Zǐ or Meng Zhu), Chinese philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 372 BC)