254 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	280s BC  270s BC  260s BC  – 250s BC –  240s BC  230s BC  220s BC
Years:	257 BC 256 BC 255 BC – 254 BC – 253 BC 252 BC 251 BC

254 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	254 BC CCLIII BC
Ab urbe condita	500
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 70
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 30
Ancient Greek era	131st Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4497
Bengali calendar	−846
Berber calendar	697
Buddhist calendar	291
Burmese calendar	−891
Byzantine calendar	5255–5256
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2443 or 2383     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2444 or 2384
Coptic calendar	−537 – −536
Discordian calendar	913
Ethiopian calendar	−261 – −260
Hebrew calendar	3507–3508
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−197 – −196
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2848–2849
Holocene calendar	9747
Iranian calendar	875 BP – 874 BP
Islamic calendar	902 BH – 901 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2080
Minguo calendar	2165 before ROC 民前2165年
Seleucid era	58/59 AG
Thai solar calendar	289–290

Year 254 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asina and Calatinus (or, less frequently, year 500 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 254 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

• A Roman army led by consuls Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina and Aulus Atilius Caiatinus capture Panormus in Sicily.
• The Romans lose control of the Sicilian city of Agrigentum to the Carthaginians.

Births

• Titus Macchius Plautus, Roman playwright who is credited with forming the foundations of modern comedy (d. 184 BC)