283 BC

Year 283 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dolabella and Maximus (or, less frequently, year 471 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 283 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.

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

283 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	283 BC CCLXXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	471
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 41
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 1
Ancient Greek era	124th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4468
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−875
Berber calendar	668
Buddhist calendar	262
Burmese calendar	−920
Byzantine calendar	5226–5227
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2415 or 2208     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2416 or 2209
Coptic calendar	−566 – −565
Discordian calendar	884
Ethiopian calendar	−290 – −289
Hebrew calendar	3478–3479
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−226 – −225
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2818–2819
Holocene calendar	9718
Iranian calendar	904 BP – 903 BP
Islamic calendar	932 BH – 931 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2051
Minguo calendar	2194 before ROC 民前2194年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1750
Seleucid era	29/30 AG
Thai solar calendar	260–261
Tibetan calendar	阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) −156 or −537 or −1309     — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) −155 or −536 or −1308

Events

By place

Greece

• 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.

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Publius Cornelius Dolabella and Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus Maximus.
• 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.

Egypt

• 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.

China

• General Lian Po of the State of Zhou defeats an army of the State of Qi and captures the city of Yangqin.

Deaths

• Demetrius I Poliorcetes, King of Macedonia (b. 336 BC)