Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 279 BC CCLXXVIII BC |
Ab urbe condita | 475 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 45 |
- Pharaoh | Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 5 |
Ancient Greek era | 125th Olympiad, year 2 |
Assyrian calendar | 4472 |
Bengali calendar | −871 |
Berber calendar | 672 |
Buddhist calendar | 266 |
Burmese calendar | −916 |
Byzantine calendar | 5230–5231 |
Chinese calendar |
辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 2418 or 2358 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 2419 or 2359 |
Coptic calendar | −562 – −561 |
Discordian calendar | 888 |
Ethiopian calendar | −286 – −285 |
Hebrew calendar | 3482–3483 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −222 – −221 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2822–2823 |
Holocene calendar | 9722 |
Iranian calendar | 900 BP – 899 BP |
Islamic calendar | 928 BH – 927 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 2055 |
Minguo calendar | 2190 before ROC 民前2190年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1746 |
Seleucid era | 33/34 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 264–265 |
Year 279 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Publius Sulpicius Saverrio and Publius Decius Mus (or, less frequently, year 475 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 279 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.