247 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: 250 BC 249 BC 248 BC - 247 BC - 246 BC 245 BC 244 BC
247 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
247 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 247 BC

Ab urbe condita 507
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2090 – -2089
Berber calendar 704
Buddhist calendar 298
Burmese calendar -884
Byzantine calendar 5262 – 5263
Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2390/2450) 甲年
(2391/2451)
Coptic calendar -530 – -529
Ethiopian calendar -254 – -253
Hebrew calendar 3514 – 3515
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -191 – -190
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2855 – 2856
Holocene calendar 9754
Iranian calendar 868 BP – 867 BP
Islamic calendar 895 BH – 894 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2087
Thai solar calendar 297

Events

By place

Carthage

• By this stage in the Punic War, Carthage has lost to Rome all its Sicilian possessions except Lilybaeum (now Marsala) and Drepanum (now Trapani). Hamilcar Barca takes over the chief command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily at a time when the island is almost completely in the hands of the Romans. Landing on the north-west of the island with a small mercenary force, he seizes a strong position on Mount Ercte (Monte Pellegrino, near Palermo), and not only successfully defends himself against all attacks, but also carries his raids as far as the coast of southern Italy.

Roman Republic

• Rome enters into a treaty, on equal terms, with Hiero II, the tyrant of Syracuse.

Births

• Hannibal of Carthage, distinguished Carthaginian military commander (d. c. 183 BC)

Deaths