298 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
Years:	301 BC 300 BC 299 BC 298 BC 297 BC 296 BC 295 BC

298 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	298 BC CCXCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	456
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 26
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 26
Ancient Greek era	120th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4453
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−890
Berber calendar	653
Buddhist calendar	247
Burmese calendar	−935
Byzantine calendar	5211–5212
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2400 or 2193     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2401 or 2194
Coptic calendar	−581 – −580
Discordian calendar	869
Ethiopian calendar	−305 – −304
Hebrew calendar	3463–3464
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−241 – −240
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2803–2804
Holocene calendar	9703
Iranian calendar	919 BP – 918 BP
Islamic calendar	947 BH – 946 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2036
Minguo calendar	2209 before ROC 民前2209年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1765
Seleucid era	14/15 AG
Thai solar calendar	245–246
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) −171 or −552 or −1324     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) −170 or −551 or −1323

Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). The Roman Republic in 298 BC is marked with dark and light red and pink.

Year 298 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbatus and Centumalus (or, less frequently, year 456 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 298 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

• Third Samnite War:

• The consuls Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus and Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus campaign against the Etruscans. Scipio fights a costly indecisive battle near Volaterrae.
• The Lucanians seek Roman aid against the invasion of the Samnites. In agreeing to take the Lucanians under their protection, the Romans commit to war against the Samnites.
• Fulvius invades central Samnium and defeats a Samnite army near Bovianum. He then captures Aufidena and possibly also Bovianum.
• Scipio captures Taurasia and Cisauna in eastern and south-eastern Samnium and subdues anti-Roman elements in Lucania. Fulvius possibly defeats a Lucanian force as well.

Sicily

• Agathocles, king of Syracuse, assists the Italian Greeks against the Bruttians and supports the Greeks against the Romans.

Egypt

• Ptolemy gives his stepdaughter Theoxena in marriage to Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse (in south-eastern Sicily).
• Ptolemy finally brings the rebellious region of Cyrene under his control. He places the region under the rule of his stepson Magas.

India

• Bindusara succeeds his father Chandragupta Maurya as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.

China

• King Huai of Chu visits the State of Qin to negotiate peace but is detained.