259 BC
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| Centuries: | 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC - 250s BC - 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC |
| Years: | 262 BC 261 BC 260 BC - 259 BC - 258 BC 257 BC 256 BC |
| 259 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 259 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 495 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2102 – -2101 |
| Berber calendar | 692 |
| Buddhist calendar | 286 |
| Burmese calendar | -896 |
| Chinese calendar | 2378/2438 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2379/2439([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -542 – -541 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -266 – -265 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3502 – 3503 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -203 – -202 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2843 – 2844 |
| Holocene calendar | 9742 |
| Iranian calendar | 880 BP – 879 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 907 BH – 906 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2075 |
| Thai solar calendar | 285 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Seleucid Empire
- Finding a willing ally in Antigonus II Gonatas, the king of Macedonia, who has had to deal with Ptolemy II's attempts to destabilise his kingdom, the Seleucid king Antiochus II starts the Second Syrian War against Ptolemy to avenge his father's losses.
[edit] Carthage
- The Carthaginians under Hamilcar take advantage of their victory at Thermae in Sicily by counterattacking the Romans and seizing Enna. Hamilcar continues south to Camarina, in Syracusan territory, to try and convince the Syracusans to rejoin the Carthaginian side.
