290 BC
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290 BC
| 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: | 293 BC 292 BC 291 BC – 290 BC – 289 BC 288 BC 287 BC |
| 290 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 290 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 464 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4461 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2133 – -2132 |
| Bengali calendar | -882 |
| Berber calendar | 661 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 255 |
| Burmese calendar | -927 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5219 – 5220 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚午年 (2347/2407) — to —
辛未年(2348/2408) |
| Coptic calendar | -573 – -572 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -297 – -296 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3471 – 3472 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -233 – -232 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2812 – 2813 |
| Holocene calendar | 9711 |
| Iranian calendar | 911 BP – 910 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 939 BH – 938 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2044 |
| Minguo calendar | 2201 before ROC 民前2201年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 254 |
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Year 290 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufinus and Dentatus (or, less frequently, year 464 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 290 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
Roman Republic
- Roman general and consul, Manius Curius Dentatus, gains a decisive victory over the Samnites, thereby ending a war that has lasted 50 years. He also reduces the Sabine insurgents to submission, their territory is annexed and they are granted civitas sine suffragio ("citizenship without the right to vote"). The Samnites are recognised by the Romans as autonomous allies. The Samnites are forced to give up some of their land to the Romans as compensation.
Egypt
- Berenice, wife of Ptolemy, is proclaimed queen of Egypt. Ptolemy has the city of Berenice built on the Red Sea in her honour. It becomes a great emporium for Egyptian trade with the East.
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