294 BC

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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: 297 BC 296 BC 295 BC – 294 BC – 293 BC 292 BC 291 BC
294 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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Establishments – Disestablishments
294 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar294 BC
Ab urbe condita460
Armenian calendarN/A
Assyrian calendar4457
Bahá'í calendar−2137 – −2136
Bengali calendar−886
Berber calendar657
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar251
Burmese calendar−931
Byzantine calendar5215–5216
Chinese calendar丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
2403 or 2343
    — to —
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
2404 or 2344
Coptic calendar−577 – −576
Discordian calendar873
Ethiopian calendar−301 – −300
Hebrew calendar3467–3468
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−237 – −236
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2808–2809
Holocene calendar9707
Igbo calendar−1293 – −1292
Iranian calendar915 BP – 914 BP
Islamic calendar943 BH – 942 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2040
Minguo calendar2205 before ROC
民前2205年
Thai solar calendar250
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Year 294 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Megellus and Regulus (or, less frequently, year 460 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 294 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

Greece

  • Archidamus IV, king of Sparta, son of Eudamidas I and grandson of Archidamus III, is defeated by Demetrius Poliorcetes of Macedonia in a battle at Mantinea. Sparta is saved only because Demetrius is called away by the threatening activities of his rivals Lysimachus and Ptolemy.
  • Alexander V of Macedon is ousted by his brother, Antipater II. Therefore Alexander V turns to Demetrius Poliorcetes for help in recovering his throne. However, Demetrius Poliorcetes establishes himself on the throne of Macedonia and then murders Alexander V. Antipater II loses the throne of Macedonia but is able to survive.
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus exploits the dynastic quarrel in Macedonia involving Alexander V of Macedon, his brother, Antipater II and Demetrius Poliorcetes to take over the frontier areas of Parauaea and Tymphaea, along with Acarnania, Ampholochia, and Ambracia.
  • Lysimachus concludes a peace with Demetrius Poliorcetes whereby Demetrius Poliorcetes is recognized as ruler of Macedonia.

Egypt

Seleucid Empire

  • Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and wife of Seleucus marries her stepson Antiochus. Seleucus has reportedly instigated the marriage after discovering that his son by his late wife Apama was in danger of dying of lovesickness as he has fallen in love with his beautiful stepmother.

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