271 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
Years:	274 BC 273 BC 272 BC 271 BC 270 BC 269 BC 268 BC

271 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	271 BC CCLXXI BC
Ab urbe condita	483
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 53
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 13
Ancient Greek era	127th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4480
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−863
Berber calendar	680
Buddhist calendar	274
Burmese calendar	−908
Byzantine calendar	5238–5239
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 2427 or 2220     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 2428 or 2221
Coptic calendar	−554 – −553
Discordian calendar	896
Ethiopian calendar	−278 – −277
Hebrew calendar	3490–3491
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−214 – −213
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2830–2831
Holocene calendar	9730
Iranian calendar	892 BP – 891 BP
Islamic calendar	919 BH – 918 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2063
Minguo calendar	2182 before ROC 民前2182年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1738
Seleucid era	41/42 AG
Thai solar calendar	272–273
Tibetan calendar	阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) −144 or −525 or −1297     — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) −143 or −524 or −1296

Year 271 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Claudus and Clepsina (or, less frequently, year 483 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 271 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

• With the restoration of the territories captured by Pyrrhus, and with grateful allies in Sparta and Argos, and garrisons in Corinth and other Greek key cities, Antigonus II securely controls Macedonia and the other states of Greece. Antigonus becomes the chief of the Thessalian League and is on good terms with neighbouring Illyria and Thrace. He secures his position in central and south Greece by keeping Macedonian occupation forces in the cities of Corinth, Chalcis on the island of Euboea, and Demetrias in Thessaly, the three "shackles" of Hellas.

India

• The Mauryan army is driven out of Kadamba by a coalition of Tamil kings under Emperor Cenni Cholan.

Births

• Aratus of Sicyon, Greek general (strategos) and statesman (d. 213 BC)