299 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	320s BC  310s BC  300s BC  – 290s BC –  280s BC  270s BC  260s BC
Years:	302 BC 301 BC 300 BC – 299 BC – 298 BC 297 BC 296 BC

299 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	299 BC CCXCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	455
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 25
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 25
Ancient Greek era	120th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4452
Bengali calendar	−891
Berber calendar	652
Buddhist calendar	246
Burmese calendar	−936
Byzantine calendar	5210–5211
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2398 or 2338     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2399 or 2339
Coptic calendar	−582 – −581
Discordian calendar	868
Ethiopian calendar	−306 – −305
Hebrew calendar	3462–3463
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−242 – −241
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2803–2804
Holocene calendar	9702
Iranian calendar	920 BP – 919 BP
Islamic calendar	948 BH – 947 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2035
Minguo calendar	2210 before ROC 民前2210年
Seleucid era	13/14 AG
Thai solar calendar	244–245

Year 299 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paetinus and Torquatus/Corvus (or, less frequently, year 455 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 299 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 Samnites, seizing their chance when Rome is engaged on the Lombard plain, start the third Samnite War with a collection of mercenaries from Gaul, Sabine, and Etruscan allies to help them.

China

• The state of Qin attacks eight cities of the state of Chu. Chu then sends an envoy to ask the King of Huai to go to Qin to negotiate peace. Qu Yuan risks his life to go up to the court to persuade the King of Huai not to go to the negotiation.
• King Wuling of Zhao abdicates the throne of Zhao to his son.

Deaths

• Titus Manlius Torquatus, Roman consul