296 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:	299 BC 298 BC 297 BC – 296 BC – 295 BC 294 BC 293 BC

296 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

296 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	296 BC
Ab urbe condita	458
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4455
Bahá'í calendar	-2139–-2138
Bengali calendar	-888
Berber calendar	655
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	249
Burmese calendar	-933
Byzantine calendar	5213–5214
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (2341/2401) — to — 乙丑年 (2342/2402)
Coptic calendar	-579–-578
Ethiopian calendar	-303–-302
Hebrew calendar	3465–3466
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-239–-238
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2806–2807
Holocene calendar	9705
Iranian calendar	917 BP – 916 BP
Islamic calendar	945 BH – 944 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2038
Minguo calendar	2207 before ROC 民前2207年
Thai solar calendar	248

Year 296 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Violens and Caecus (or, less frequently, year 458 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 296 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

Greece

• Ptolemy makes peace with Demetrius Poliorcetes, to whom he betrothes his daughter Ptolemais.

Roman Republic

• The temple to Bellona is erected at the south end of the prata Flaminia, later the Circus Flaminius, in Rome.