259 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: 262 BC 261 BC 260 BC – 259 BC – 258 BC 257 BC 256 BC
259 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
259 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 259 BC
Ab urbe condita 495
Armenian calendar N/A
Assyrian calendar 4492
Bahá'í calendar -2102–-2101
Bengali calendar -851
Berber calendar 692
English Regnal year N/A
Buddhist calendar 286
Burmese calendar -896
Byzantine calendar 5250–5251
Chinese calendar 辛丑年
(2378/2438)
— to —
壬寅年
(2379/2439)
Coptic calendar -542–-541
Ethiopian calendar -266–-265
Hebrew calendar 3502–3503
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -202–-201
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2843–2844
Holocene calendar 9742
Iranian calendar 880 BP – 879 BP
Islamic calendar 907 BH – 906 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2075
Minguo calendar 2170 before ROC
民前2170年
Thai solar calendar 285

Year 259 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scipio and Florus (or, less frequently, year 495 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 259 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.

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Seleucid Empire

Sicily

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