236 BC

Year 236 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caudinus and Varus (or, less frequently, year 518 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 236 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC 3rd century BC 2nd century BC
Decades:	250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC
Years:	239 BC 238 BC 237 BC 236 BC 235 BC 234 BC 233 BC

236 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	236 BC CCXXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	518
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 88
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 11
Ancient Greek era	136th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4515
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−828
Berber calendar	715
Buddhist calendar	309
Burmese calendar	−873
Byzantine calendar	5273–5274
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2462 or 2255     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2463 or 2256
Coptic calendar	−519 – −518
Discordian calendar	931
Ethiopian calendar	−243 – −242
Hebrew calendar	3525–3526
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−179 – −178
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2865–2866
Holocene calendar	9765
Iranian calendar	857 BP – 856 BP
Islamic calendar	883 BH – 882 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2098
Minguo calendar	2147 before ROC 民前2147年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1703
Seleucid era	76/77 AG
Thai solar calendar	307–308
Tibetan calendar	阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) −109 or −490 or −1262     — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) −108 or −489 or −1261

Events

By place

Asia Minor

• Antiochus Hierax, supported by his mother Laodice I, allies himself with the Galatians (Celts) and two other states that are traditional foes of the Seleucid kingdom. With the aid of these forces, he inflicts a crushing defeat on his older brother Seleucus II's army at Ancyra in Anatolia. Seleucus leaves the country beyond the Taurus Mountains to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula.

Egypt

• Eratosthenes is appointed by King Ptolemy III Euergetes as head and third librarian of the Alexandrian library.

China

• King Ying Zheng of the State of Qin begins a series of campaigns against the State of Zhao that will end with Zhao's conquest in 228 BC. The Qin generals Huan Yi and Wang Jian seize nine cities in the Yecheng region.

Sri Lanka

• Buddhism is introduced to Sri Lanka by Mahinda, a monk acting on behalf of the late Ashoka.

Births

• Scipio Africanus, Roman general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic (approximate date) (d. 183 BC)