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 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**298 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	298 BC
Ab urbe condita	456
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2141 – -2140
Bengali calendar	-890
Berber calendar	653
Buddhist calendar	247
Burmese calendar	-935
Byzantine calendar	5211 – 5212
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2339/2399) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2340/2400)
Coptic calendar	-581 – -580
Ethiopian calendar	-305 – -304
Hebrew calendar	3463 – 3464
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-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
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2036
Thai solar calendar	246

Events

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.

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

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.

Bindusara succeeds his father Chandragupta Maurya as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.