275 BC

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  250s BC  240s BC
Years:	278 BC 277 BC 276 BC – 275 BC – 274 BC 273 BC 272 BC

275 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

275 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	275 BC CCLXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	479
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 49
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 9
Ancient Greek era	126th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4476
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−867
Berber calendar	676
Buddhist calendar	270
Burmese calendar	−912
Byzantine calendar	5234–5235
Chinese calendar	乙おつ酉とり年とし (Wood Rooster) 2422 or 2362     — to — 丙へい戌年いぬどし (Fire Dog) 2423 or 2363
Coptic calendar	−558 – −557
Discordian calendar	892
Ethiopian calendar	−282 – −281
Hebrew calendar	3486–3487
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−218 – −217
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2826–2827
Holocene calendar	9726
Iranian calendar	896 BP – 895 BP
Islamic calendar	924 BH – 923 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2059
Minguo calendar	2186 before ROC 民みん前まえ2186年ねん
Nanakshahi calendar	−1742
Seleucid era	37/38 AG
Thai solar calendar	268–269
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) −148 or −529 or −1301     — to — 阳火狗いぬ年ねん (male Fire-Dog) −147 or −528 or −1300

Year 275 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Egypt

• The Museum of Alexandria is founded by the Egyptian King Ptolemy II.

Roman Republic

• When Pyrrhus returns from Sicily, he finds himself greatly outnumbered by the Roman army under the command of consul Manius Curius Dentatus. After the Battle of Beneventum, Roman commander and statesman, Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, gets a peace with Pyrrhus. Then Pyrrhus decides to end his battles in Italy and return to Epirus.

Sicily

• After Pyrrhus leaves Sicily, the Syracusan army and the city's citizens make Hiero II as the commander of their troops.

Greece

• Antiochus's alliance with Antigonus II is made stronger by Antigonus' marriage to Phila, Antiochus' half sister.

Births

• Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Roman dictator, politician and soldier (approximate date) (d. 203 BC)

Deaths

• Shen Dao, Chinese philosopher from Zhao who also served at the Jixia academy in Qi. He is known for his blend of Legalism and Taoism (approximate date) (b. c. 350 BC)