275 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 4th century BC3rd century BC2nd century BC
Decades: 300s BC  290s BC  280s BC  – 270s BC –  260s BC  250s BC  240s BC
Years: 278 BC 277 BC 276 BC – 275 BC – 274 BC 273 BC 272 BC
275 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
275 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar275 BC
CCLXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita479
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 49
- PharaohPtolemy II Philadelphus, 9
Ancient Greek era126th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4476
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−867
Berber calendar676
Buddhist calendar270
Burmese calendar−912
Byzantine calendar5234–5235
Chinese calendar乙酉(Wood Rooster)
2422 or 2362
    — to —
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
2423 or 2363
Coptic calendar−558 – −557
Discordian calendar892
Ethiopian calendar−282 – −281
Hebrew calendar3486–3487
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−218 – −217
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2826–2827
Holocene calendar9726
Iranian calendar896 BP – 895 BP
Islamic calendar924 BH – 923 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2059
Minguo calendar2186 before ROC
民前2186年
Nanakshahi calendar−1742
Seleucid era37/38 AG
Thai solar calendar268–269
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
−148 or −529 or −1301
    — to —
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
−147 or −528 or −1300


Year 275 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Egypt

  • The Museum of Alexandria is founded by the Egyptian King Ptolemy II.

Roman Republic

  • When Pyrrhus returns from Sicily, he finds himself greatly outnumbered by the Roman army under the command of consul Manius Curius Dentatus. After the Battle of Beneventum, Roman commander and statesman, Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, gets a peace with Pyrrhus. Then Pyrrhus decides to end his battles in Italy and return to Epirus.

Sicily

  • After Pyrrhus leaves Sicily, the Syracusan army and the city's citizens make Hiero II as the commander of their troops.

Greece

  • Antiochus's alliance with Antigonus II is made stronger by Antigonus' marriage to Phila, Antiochus' half sister.

Births

  • Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Roman dictator, politician and soldier (approximate date) (d. 203 BC)

Deaths

  • Shen Dao, Chinese philosopher from Zhao who also served at the Jixia academy in Qi. He is known for his blend of Legalism and Taoism (approximate date) (b. c. 350 BC)