261 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 4th century BC · 3rd century BC · 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 290s BC · 280s BC · 270s BC · 260s BC · 250s BC · 240s BC · 230s BC |
| Years: | 264 BC · 263 BC · 262 BC · 261 BC · 260 BC · 259 BC · 258 BC |
| 261 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 261 BC CCLX BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 493 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 63 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 23 |
| Ancient Greek era | 129th Olympiad, year 4 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4490 |
| Bengali calendar | −853 |
| Berber calendar | 690 |
| Buddhist calendar | 284 |
| Burmese calendar | −898 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5248–5249 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2436 or 2376 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2437 or 2377 |
| Coptic calendar | −544 – −543 |
| Discordian calendar | 906 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −268 – −267 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3500–3501 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −204 – −203 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2840–2841 |
| Holocene calendar | 9740 |
| Iranian calendar | 882 BP – 881 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 909 BH – 908 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2073 |
| Minguo calendar | 2172 before ROC 民前2172年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1728 |
| Seleucid era | 51/52 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 282–283 |
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Year 261 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Crassus (or, less frequently, year 493 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 261 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
- The Romans, determined to win control of Sicily from Carthage, build a fleet based on the model of a captured Carthaginian quinquereme.
Seleucid Empire
- The new Seleucid king Antiochus II reaches an agreement with the king of Macedonia, Antigonus II Gonatas, to work together in trying to push Ptolemy II's fleet and armies out of the Aegean Sea. With Macedonia's support, Antiochus II launches an attack on Ptolemaic outposts in Asia Minor.
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