290 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:	293 BC 292 BC 291 BC – 290 BC – 289 BC 288 BC 287 BC

290 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	290 BC CCLXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	464
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 34
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 34
Ancient Greek era	122nd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4461
Bengali calendar	−882
Berber calendar	661
Buddhist calendar	255
Burmese calendar	−927
Byzantine calendar	5219–5220
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2407 or 2347     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2408 or 2348
Coptic calendar	−573 – −572
Discordian calendar	877
Ethiopian calendar	−297 – −296
Hebrew calendar	3471–3472
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−233 – −232
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2812–2813
Holocene calendar	9711
Iranian calendar	911 BP – 910 BP
Islamic calendar	939 BH – 938 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2044
Minguo calendar	2201 before ROC 民前2201年
Seleucid era	22/23 AG
Thai solar calendar	253–254

The Roman republic in 290 BC (dark and light red, pink and orange).

Year 290 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufinus and Dentatus (or, less frequently, year 464 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 290 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

• Roman general and consul, Manius Curius Dentatus, gains a decisive victory over the Samnites, thereby ending a war that has lasted 50 years. He also reduces the Sabine insurgents to submission, their territory is annexed and they are granted civitas sine suffragio ("citizenship without the right to vote"). The Samnites are recognised by the Romans as autonomous allies. The Samnites are forced to give up some of their land to the Romans as compensation.

Egypt

• Berenice, wife of Ptolemy, is proclaimed queen of Egypt. Ptolemy has the city of Berenice built on the Red Sea in her honour. It becomes a great emporium for Egyptian trade with the East.