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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: 251 BC 250 BC 249 BC – 248 BC – 247 BC 246 BC 245 BC
248 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Ab urbe condita 506
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2091 – -2090
Bengali calendar -840
Berber calendar 703
Buddhist calendar 297
Burmese calendar -885
Byzantine calendar 5261 – 5262
Chinese calendar 子年
(2389/2449)
— to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2390/2450)
Coptic calendar -531 – -530
Ethiopian calendar -255 – -254
Hebrew calendar 3513 – 3514
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat -192 – -191
- Shaka Samvat N/A
- Kali Yuga 2854 – 2855
Holocene calendar 9753
Iranian calendar 869 BP – 868 BP
Islamic calendar 896 BH – 895 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2086
Thai solar calendar 296
Events
By place
India
- The Mauryan king Ashoka the Great is dedicated to the propagation of Buddhism and begins establishing monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.