Calendar year
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| 234 BC by topic |
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| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 234 BC CCXXXIV BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 520 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 90 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy III Euergetes, 13 |
| Ancient Greek era | 136th Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4517 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −826 |
| Berber calendar | 717 |
| Buddhist calendar | 311 |
| Burmese calendar | −871 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5275–5276 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2464 or 2257 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2465 or 2258 |
| Coptic calendar | −517 – −516 |
| Discordian calendar | 933 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −241 – −240 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3527–3528 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −177 – −176 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2867–2868 |
| Holocene calendar | 9767 |
| Iranian calendar | 855 BP – 854 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 881 BH – 880 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2100 |
| Minguo calendar | 2145 before ROC 民前2145年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1701 |
| Seleucid era | 78/79 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 309–310 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) −107 or −488 or −1260 — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) −106 or −487 or −1259 |
Year 234 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Albinus and Ruga (or, less frequently, year 520 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 234 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
Greece
- The Epirote Alliance is replaced by the Epirote League, which is a federal state with its own parliament (or synedrion).
- The city of Pleuron is destroyed by Demetrius II of Macedon.
- After the resignation of Lydiadas, the city of Megalopolis joins the Achaean League.
Roman Republic
China
- The Qin general Huan Yi wins a major victory over the Zhao general Hu Zhe in the Battle of Pingyang, and captures Pingyang and Wucheng.
Births
- Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder), Roman statesman, (d. 149 BC)
- Mete Khan, Xiongnu emperor, (d. 174 BC)
Deaths
- Pharnavaz I of Iberia, King of Georgia
- Zenodotus of Ephesus, first librarian of the Library of Alexandria
References
- Strabo. Geographica. Vol. x. p. 451. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- Scullard, Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII, part 2, pp. 566–568.
- Bodde, Derk (1987), "The State and Empire of Qin", in Twitchett, Denis; Loewe, Michael (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, vol. I: the Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC – AD 220, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 27, ISBN 0-521-24327-0.