283 BC: Information from Answers.com

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	310s BC 300s BC 290s BC – 280s BC – 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC
Years:	286 BC 285 BC 284 BC – 283 BC – 282 BC 281 BC 280 BC

283 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

**283 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	283 BC
Ab urbe condita	471
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2126 – -2125
Berber calendar	668
Buddhist calendar	262
Burmese calendar	-920
Byzantine calendar	5226 – 5227
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2354/2414) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2355/2415)
Coptic calendar	-566 – -565
Ethiopian calendar	-290 – -289
Hebrew calendar	3478 – 3479
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-227 – -226
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2819 – 2820
Holocene calendar	9718
Iranian calendar	904 BP – 903 BP
Islamic calendar	932 BH – 931 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2051
Thai solar calendar	261
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Events

Following Demetrius Poliorcetes' death in captivity as a prisoner of Seleucus, his son Antigonus assumes the title of King of Macedonia, though in name only, as King Lysimachus of Thrace is in control of Macedonia. Demetrius' remains are given to Antigonus and he is honoured with a grand funeral in Corinth. After this, Demetrius is interred in the town of Demetrias which he had founded.

At the Battle of Lake Vadimo, Roman forces finally quell the allied Etruscans and Gauls. The Roman army is led by consul Publius Cornelius Dolabella. Rome is at last undisputed master of northern and central Italy.

The canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, initially started but not completed by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II and repaired by the Persian king Darius I, is again repaired and made operational by Ptolemy II.
Ptolemy II enlarges the library at Alexandria and appoints the grammarian Zenodotus to collect and edit all the Greek poets.

Demetrius I Poliorcetes, King of Macedonia (b. 336 BC)
Ptolemy I Soter, Macedonian general who served under Alexander the Great and became ruler of Egypt and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty (b. 367 BC)

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