248 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:	251 BC 250 BC 249 BC – 248 BC – 247 BC 246 BC 245 BC

248 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	248 BC CCXLVII BC
Ab urbe condita	506
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 76
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 36
Ancient Greek era	133rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4503
Bengali calendar	−840
Berber calendar	703
Buddhist calendar	297
Burmese calendar	−885
Byzantine calendar	5261–5262
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 2449 or 2389     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2450 or 2390
Coptic calendar	−531 – −530
Discordian calendar	919
Ethiopian calendar	−255 – −254
Hebrew calendar	3513–3514
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−191 – −190
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2854–2855
Holocene calendar	9753
Iranian calendar	869 BP – 868 BP
Islamic calendar	896 BH – 895 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2086
Minguo calendar	2159 before ROC 民前2159年
Seleucid era	64/65 AG
Thai solar calendar	295–296

Year 248 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic at the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Geminus (or, less frequently, year 506 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 248 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

India

• The Mauryan king Ashoka the Great is dedicated to the propagation of Buddhism and begins establishing monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.