252 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	280s BC  270s BC  260s BC  – 250s BC –  240s BC  230s BC  220s BC
Years:	255 BC 254 BC 253 BC – 252 BC – 251 BC 250 BC 249 BC

252 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	252 BC CCLI BC
Ab urbe condita	502
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 72
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 32
Ancient Greek era	132nd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4499
Bengali calendar	−844
Berber calendar	699
Buddhist calendar	293
Burmese calendar	−889
Byzantine calendar	5257–5258
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2445 or 2385     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2446 or 2386
Coptic calendar	−535 – −534
Discordian calendar	915
Ethiopian calendar	−259 – −258
Hebrew calendar	3509–3510
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−195 – −194
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2850–2851
Holocene calendar	9749
Iranian calendar	873 BP – 872 BP
Islamic calendar	900 BH – 899 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2082
Minguo calendar	2163 before ROC 民前2163年
Seleucid era	60/61 AG
Thai solar calendar	291–292

Year 252 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Geminus (or, less frequently, year 502 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 252 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

• Abantidas, the tyrant of Sicyon, is murdered by his enemies and is succeeded by his father, Paseas.

Vietnam

• The Thuc Dynasty replaces the Hong Bang Dynasty in Au Lac (a kingdom in central Vietnam).

Births

• Ch'a Ruler I 252- ? BC, ruler of Palenque

Deaths

• Abantidas, tyrant of Sicyon (assassinated)