295 BC
The year 295 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. It was known in the Roman Republic as the Year of the Consulship of Rullianus and Mus. The designation "295 BC" has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the dominant system for naming years in Europe.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
- Third Samnite War:
- August 19 - The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges.
Greece
- Athens falls to Demetrius Poliorcetes after a bitter siege, and its tyrant Lachares flees into exile.
- The king of Macedon, Antipater II, murders his mother Thessalonike, accusing her of being too fond of his brother and co-ruler Alexander V.
Births
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek poet and librarian
- Ptolemy, son of Pyrrhus of Epirus
Deaths
- Gellius Egnatius, Roman military leader of the Samnites
- Publius Decius Mus, Roman consul
- Thessalonike of Macedon, daughter of king Philip II of Macedon and wife of Cassander
- Wuling of Zhao, Chinese king of Zhao
- Zhuang Zhou, Chinese philosopher