Editing 298 BC

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[[File:Roman conquest of Italy.PNG|thumb|[[Roman expansion in Italy]] from 500 BC to 218 BC through the [[Latin War]] (light red), [[Samnite Wars]] (pink/orange), [[Pyrrhic War]] (beige), and [[First Punic War|First]] and [[Second Punic War|Second]] [[Punic Wars|Punic War]] (yellow and green). The [[Roman Republic]] in 298 BC is marked with dark and light red and pink.]]
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Year '''298 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Barbatus and Centumalus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 456 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 298 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Republic ====
* [[Third Samnite War]]:
:* The consuls [[Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus]] and [[Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus]] campaign against the [[Etruscans]]. Scipio fights a costly indecisive battle near Volaterrae.
:* The [[Lucanians]] seek Roman aid against the invasion of the [[Samnites]]. In agreeing to take the Lucanians under their protection, the Romans commit to war against the Samnites.
:* Fulvius invades central Samnium and defeats a Samnite army near Bovianum. He then captures [[Aufidena]] and possibly also Bovianum.
:* Scipio captures Taurasia and Cisauna in eastern and south-eastern Samnium and subdues anti-Roman elements in Lucania. Fulvius possibly defeats a Lucanian force as well.<ref>{{cite book|first= Titus|last= Livius|title=Ab Urbe Condita 10.11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first= Dionysius|last= of Halicarnassus|title=Roman Antiquities 16.11-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first= Sextus Julius|last= Frontinus|title=Stratagemata 1.6.1-2, 1.11.2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first= S. P.|last= Oakley|title=Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X, 4 : Book X}}</ref>

==== Sicily ====
* [[Agathocles]], king of [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]], assists the Italian Greeks against the [[Bruttians]] and supports the Greeks against the Romans.

==== Egypt ====
* [[Ptolemy I Soter|Ptolemy]] gives his stepdaughter Theoxena in marriage to Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse (in south-eastern [[Sicily]]).
* Ptolemy finally brings the rebellious region of Cyrene under his control. He places the region under the rule of his stepson Magas.

==== India ====
* [[Bindusara]] succeeds his father [[Chandragupta Maurya]] as emperor of the [[Mauryan dynasty|Mauryan Empire]].

==== China ====
* [[King Huai of Chu]] visits the [[State of Qin]] to negotiate peace but is detained.<ref>{{cite book|first=Sima|last= Qian|title=Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Basic Annals of Qin.}}</ref>
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== Births ==
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== Deaths ==

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== References ==
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