295 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	320s BC  310s BC  300s BC  – 290s BC –  280s BC  270s BC  260s BC
Years:	298 BC 297 BC 296 BC – 295 BC – 294 BC 293 BC 292 BC

295 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

295 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	295 BC
Ab urbe condita	459
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4456
Bahá'í calendar	-2138–-2137
Bengali calendar	-887
Berber calendar	656
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	250
Burmese calendar	-932
Byzantine calendar	5214–5215
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (2342/2402) — to — 丙寅年 (2343/2403)
Coptic calendar	-578–-577
Ethiopian calendar	-302–-301
Hebrew calendar	3466–3467
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-238–-237
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2807–2808
Holocene calendar	9706
Iranian calendar	916 BP – 915 BP
Islamic calendar	944 BH – 943 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2039
Minguo calendar	2206 before ROC 民前2206年
Thai solar calendar	249

Year 295 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rullianus and Mus (or, less frequently, year 459 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 295 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 Battle of Sentinum west of Anconum ends in defeat for a formidable coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Umbrians, and their Gallic allies at the hands of the Roman legions commanded by consuls Publius Decius Mus (who is killed in the battle) and Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus. The Romans lose nearly 8,000 men but kill some 25,000 of the enemy and force peace on the Etruscans.

Greece

• Athens falls to Demetrius Poliorcetes after a bitter siege, and its tyrant Lachares is killed.
• The King of Macedon, Antipater II, murders his mother Thessalonica, accusing her of being too fond of his brother and co-ruler Alexander V.

Deaths

• Thessalonica of Macedon, daughter of king Philip II of Macedon and wife of Cassander
• Publius Decius Mus, Roman consul (killed in the battle of Sentinum)
• Zhuangzi, Chinese philosopher
• King Wuling of Zhao, king of the Chinese State of Zhao