298 BC
Year 298 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbatus and Centumalus. The denomination 298 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
- Third Samnite War:
Sicily
- Agathocles, king of Syracuse, assists the Italian Greeks against the Bruttians and supports the Greeks against the Romans.
Egypt
- Ptolemy gives his stepdaughter Theoxena in marriage to Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse.
- Ptolemy finally brings the rebellious region of Cyrene under his control. He places the region under the rule of his stepson Magas.
India
- Bindusara succeeds his father Chandragupta Maurya as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.
China
- King Huai of Chu visits the State of Qin to negotiate peace but is detained.