236 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	260s BC  250s BC  240s BC  – 230s BC –  220s BC  210s BC  200s BC
Years:	239 BC 238 BC 237 BC – 236 BC – 235 BC 234 BC 233 BC

236 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	236 BC CCXXXV BC
Ab urbe condita	518
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 88
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 11
Ancient Greek era	136th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4515
Bengali calendar	−828
Berber calendar	715
Buddhist calendar	309
Burmese calendar	−873
Byzantine calendar	5273–5274
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2461 or 2401     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2462 or 2402
Coptic calendar	−519 – −518
Discordian calendar	931
Ethiopian calendar	−243 – −242
Hebrew calendar	3525–3526
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−179 – −178
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2866–2867
Holocene calendar	9765
Iranian calendar	857 BP – 856 BP
Islamic calendar	883 BH – 882 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2098
Minguo calendar	2147 before ROC 民前2147年
Seleucid era	76/77 AG
Thai solar calendar	307–308

Year 236 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caudinus and Varus (or, less frequently, year 518 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 236 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

Asia Minor

• Antiochus Hierax, supported by his mother Laodice I, allies himself with the Galatians (Celts) and two other states that are traditional foes of the Seleucid kingdom. With the aid of these forces, he inflicts a crushing defeat on his older brother Seleucus II's army at Ancyra in Anatolia. Seleucus leaves the country beyond the Taurus Mountains to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula.

Egypt

• Eratosthenes is appointed by King Ptolemy III Euergetes as head and third librarian of the Alexandrian library.

Births

• Scipio Africanus, Roman general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic (approximate date) (d. 183 BC)