253 BC Chr.
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| 253 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 291/292 (southern Buddhism); 290/291 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 40th (41st) cycle , year of the earth-monkey 戊申 ( at the beginning of the year fire-sheep 丁未) |
| Greek calendar | 3rd / 4th Year of the 131st Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3508/09 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DI (501) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 58/59 (turn of April); Syria: 59/60 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Politics and world events
- First Punic War : Roman raid on the African coast. Another 150 ships are lost in a storm.
- Peace was concluded in the Second Syrian War between Egypt under Ptolemy II and the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus II. Antiochus marries Ptolemaios' daughter Berenike the younger and casts his previous wife Laodike out .
religion
- around 253 BC Chr .: Buddhist council in Pataliputra under the patronage of King Ashoka . This leads to a split between the Theravada ( doctrine of the elders ), which accept the Council decision formulated as the Book of Kathavatthu , and their opponents ( Mahasanghika ).
Born
- Philopoimen , Greek general († 183/182 BC)