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

298 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	298 BC CCXCVII 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
Bengali calendar	−890
Berber calendar	653
Buddhist calendar	247
Burmese calendar	−935
Byzantine calendar	5211–5212
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2399 or 2339     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2400 or 2340
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	2804–2805
Holocene calendar	9703
Iranian calendar	919 BP – 918 BP
Islamic calendar	947 BH – 946 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2036
Minguo calendar	2209 before ROC 民前2209年
Seleucid era	14/15 AG
Thai solar calendar	245–246

The Roman republic in 298 BC (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

• The Samnites defeat the Romans under Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus in the Battle of Camerinum, first battle of the Third Samnite War.
• The Roman armies penetrate into the heart of the Samnite territory and then capture the Samnite cities of Taurasia, Bovianum Vetus and Aufidena.

Sicily

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