| 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: | 299 BC 298 BC 297 BC – 296 BC – 295 BC 294 BC 293 BC |
| 296 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 296 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 458 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2139 – -2138 |
| Bengali calendar | -888 |
| Berber calendar | 655 |
| Buddhist calendar | 249 |
| Burmese calendar | -933 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5213 – 5214 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年 (2341/2401) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2342/2402) |
| Coptic calendar | -579 – -578 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -303 – -302 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3465 – 3466 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -239 – -238 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2806 – 2807 |
| Holocene calendar | 9705 |
| Iranian calendar | 917 BP – 916 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 945 BH – 944 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2038 |
| Thai solar calendar | 248 |