248 BC Chr.
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| 248 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 296/297 (southern Buddhism); 295/296 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 40th (41st) cycle , year of the water buffalo癸丑 ( at the beginning of the year water rat 壬子) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 132nd / 1st year of the 133rd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3513/14 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DVI (506) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 63/64 (turn of April); Syria: 64/65 (turn of the year October) |
Events
- After the Battle of Drepana, the First Punic War in Sicily turns into a trench warfare in which the exhausted parties do not dare major battles.
- Plundering trains of the Carthaginian fleet under Karthalo against southern Italian ports.
- The Romans conclude a permanent treaty of alliance with Hieron II of Syracuse .