250 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 4th century BC3rd century BC2nd century BC
Decades: 280s BC  270s BC  260s BC 250s BC 240s BC  230s BC  220s BC
Years: 253 BC 252 BC 251 BC250 BC249 BC 248 BC 247 BC
250 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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Establishments – Disestablishments
250 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar250 BC
Ab urbe condita504
Armenian calendarN/A
Assyrian calendar4501
Bahá'í calendar−2093 – −2092
Bengali calendar−842
Berber calendar701
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar295
Burmese calendar−887
Byzantine calendar5259–5260
Chinese calendar庚戌(Metal Dog)
2447 or 2387
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
2448 or 2388
Coptic calendar−533 – −532
Discordian calendar917
Ethiopian calendar−257 – −256
Hebrew calendar3511–3512
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−193 – −192
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2852–2853
Holocene calendar9751
Igbo calendar−1249 – −1248
Iranian calendar871 BP – 870 BP
Islamic calendar898 BH – 897 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2084
Minguo calendar2161 before ROC
民前2161年
Thai solar calendar294
Germanic tribes in Europe in 250 BC (red, orange and yellow)

Year 250 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Regulus and Longus (or, less frequently, year 504 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 250 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

Egypt

Roman Republic

  • In the Punic War, the Romans shift their attention to the southwest of Sicily. They send a naval expedition toward the Carthaginian city of Lilybaeum. En route, the Romans seize and burn the Carthaginian held cities of Selinous and Heraclea Minoa. The Romans then begin the siege of Lilybaeum.
  • According to tradition (Horace, Odes, iii. 5), after the defeat of the Carthaginians at the Battle of Panormus, the Carthaginians release Marcus Atilius Regulus from prison and he is sent to Rome on parole to negotiate a peace or an exchange of prisoners. However, on his arrival, he strongly urges the Roman Senate to refuse both proposals and continue fighting. He then honours his parole by returning to Carthage where he is executed by being placed in a spiked barrel, which is then let roll down a hill.

Persia

India

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