245 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
Decades: 270s BC  260s BC  250s BC  - 240s BC -  230s BC  220s BC  210s BC
Years: 248 BC 247 BC 246 BC - 245 BC - 244 BC 243 BC 242 BC
245 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
245 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 245 BC

Ab urbe condita 509
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2088 – -2087
Berber calendar 706
Buddhist calendar 300
Burmese calendar -882
Byzantine calendar 5264 – 5265
Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2392/2452) [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2393/2453)
Coptic calendar -528 – -527
Ethiopian calendar -252 – -251
Hebrew calendar 3516 – 3517
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -189 – -188
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2857 – 2858
Holocene calendar 9756
Iranian calendar 866 BP – 865 BP
Islamic calendar 893 BH – 892 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2089
Thai solar calendar 299

Events

By place

Egypt

• Babylon and Susa fall to the Egyptian armies of Ptolemy III.
• Following a long engagement, Ptolemy III marries Berenice II, the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene; thereby reuniting Egypt and Cyrenaica.

Greece

• After the death of his nephew, Alexander of Corinth, Antigonus II gives Nicaea, Alexander's widow, to his son Demetrius in marriage. Through this action, Antigonus II regains Corinth which has been independent while under the rule of Alexander of Corinth.
• Aratus of Sicyon is elected general (strategos) of the Achaean League.

Births

Deaths

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek poet, grammarian and author of the Argonautica, an epic in four books on the voyage of the Argonauts (b. c. 295 BC)