293 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC 3rd century BC 2nd century BC
Decades:	310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC
Years:	296 BC 295 BC 294 BC 293 BC 292 BC 291 BC 290 BC

293 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	293 BC CCXCIII BC
Ab urbe condita	461
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 31
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 31
Ancient Greek era	121st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4458
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−886 – −885
Berber calendar	658
Buddhist calendar	252
Burmese calendar	−930
Byzantine calendar	5216–5217
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2405 or 2198     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 2406 or 2199
Coptic calendar	−576 – −575
Discordian calendar	874
Ethiopian calendar	−300 – −299
Hebrew calendar	3468–3469
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−236 – −235
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2808–2809
Holocene calendar	9708
Iranian calendar	914 BP – 913 BP
Islamic calendar	942 BH – 941 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2041
Minguo calendar	2204 before ROC 民前2204年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1760
Seleucid era	19/20 AG
Thai solar calendar	250–251
Tibetan calendar	阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) −166 or −547 or −1319     — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) −165 or −546 or −1318

Year 293 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Maximus (or, less frequently, year 461 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 293 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:

• Lucius Postumius Megellus, a consul of the previous year, avoids prosecution after he is appointed legate to consul Spurius Carvilius Maximus.
• The consul Carvilius captures the city of Amiternum, and consul Lucius Papirius Cursor captures the city of Duronia.
• On the same day that Carvilius storms the major Samnite city of Cominium, Papirius, aided by former consuls Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens and Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, defeats the 'Linen Legion' in the Battle of Aquilonia and captures the city of Aquilonia during the Samnite retreat. The Samnites suffer 20,340 killed and 3870 captured in the Battle of Aquilonia and 4880 killed and 11,400 captured in the Siege of Cominium.
• Carvilius captures the towns of Velia, Palumbinum, and, after an initial defeat, Herculaneum, and after fighting the Samnites in the field, Papirius besieges and captures the city of Saepinum.
• Due to renewed hostility among some of the Etruscans, who are joined by the Falisci, Carvilius marches to Etruria, storms the town of Troilum and captures five forts. The Falisci then sue for peace and receive a one-year truce.

• The worship of Aesculapius is introduced from Epidaurus to Rome in the hope of ending a plague.

Greece

• The Boeotians revolted against Demetrius Poliorcetes, the King of Macedon. They received help from the Aetolians and the Spartans.

Persia

• When an invasion of nomads threatens the eastern possessions of his realm (i.e. between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea and the Indian Ocean), Seleucus hands over the government of these lands west of the Euphrates to his son Antiochus. Antiochus is appointed co-regent and commander-in-chief of these territories.

China

• The State of Qin, led by commander Bai Qi, wins a decisive victory over the States of Wei and Han in the Battle of Yique. He then captures territories in Han before invading and capturing further territories in Wei.