242 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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242 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar242 BC
CCXLII BC
Ab urbe condita512
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 82
- PharaohPtolemy III Euergetes, 5
Ancient Greek era134th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4509
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−834
Berber calendar709
Buddhist calendar303
Burmese calendar−879
Byzantine calendar5267–5268
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
2456 or 2249
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
2457 or 2250
Coptic calendar−525 – −524
Discordian calendar925
Ethiopian calendar−249 – −248
Hebrew calendar3519–3520
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−185 – −184
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2859–2860
Holocene calendar9759
Iranian calendar863 BP – 862 BP
Islamic calendar890 BH – 889 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2092
Minguo calendar2153 before ROC
民前2153年
Nanakshahi calendar−1709
Seleucid era70/71 AG
Thai solar calendar301–302
Tibetan calendar阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
−115 or −496 or −1268
    — to —
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
−114 or −495 or −1267

Year 242 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Catulus and Albinus (or, less frequently, year 512 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 242 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.