297 BC
Year 297 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
| 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: | 300 BC 299 BC 298 BC – 297 BC – 296 BC 295 BC 294 BC |
| 297 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 297 BC CCXCVI BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 457 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 27 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy I Soter, 27 |
| Ancient Greek era | 120th Olympiad, year 4 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4454 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −889 |
| Berber calendar | 654 |
| Buddhist calendar | 248 |
| Burmese calendar | −934 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5212–5213 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2400 or 2340 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2401 or 2341 |
| Coptic calendar | −580 – −579 |
| Discordian calendar | 870 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −304 – −303 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3464–3465 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −240 – −239 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2804–2805 |
| Holocene calendar | 9704 |
| Iranian calendar | 918 BP – 917 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 946 BH – 945 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2037 |
| Minguo calendar | 2208 before ROC 民前2208年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1764 |
| Seleucid era | 15/16 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 246–247 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) −170 or −551 or −1323 — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) −169 or −550 or −1322 |
Events
Roman Republic
- Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes consul for the fourth time. He defeats the Samnites in a battle near Tifernum.
Greece
- After Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, becomes King of Macedon. Soon after this he suffers from a wasting disease and dies. Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother Alexander V.
- Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to Greece to become master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece, Lysimachus seizes his possessions in Asia Minor.
- Ptolemy decides to support Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman, Neoptolemus II of Epirus. But he has him assassinated.
India
- Chandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola near Mysore to live in the way of Jains.
- Bindusara his son goes to the Pataliputra throne.
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