249 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: 252 BC 251 BC 250 BC - 249 BC - 248 BC 247 BC 246 BC
249 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
249 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 249 BC

Ab urbe condita 505
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2092 – -2091
Berber calendar 702
Buddhist calendar 296
Burmese calendar -886
Byzantine calendar 5260 – 5261
Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2388/2448)

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子年
(2389/2449)
Coptic calendar -532 – -531
Ethiopian calendar -256 – -255
Hebrew calendar 3512 – 3513
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat -193 – -192
- Shaka Samvat N/A
- Kali Yuga 2853 – 2854
Holocene calendar 9752
Iranian calendar 870 BP – 869 BP
Islamic calendar 897 BH – 896 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2085
Thai solar calendar 295

Events

The Battle of Drepana involves the Romans, under the command of the Roman consuls, Publius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Iunius Pullus, attacking the Carthaginian fleet, under the command of Adherbal, in the harbour of Drepanum (modern Trapani, Sicily). The Romans are badly defeated and lose 93 of their 123 vessels.
Following the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Drepana of Roman forces, Publius Claudius Pulcher is fined 120,000 asses and his colleague, Lucius Iunius Pullus, commits suicide. Aulus Atilius Calatinus is then elected dictator and leads an army into Sicily, becoming the first dictator to lead a Roman army outside Italy. The Roman forces at Lilybaeum are relieved, and Eryx, near Drapana, is seized.