242 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
Decades:	270s BC 260s BC 250s BC - 240s BC - 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC
Years:	245 BC 244 BC 243 BC - 242 BC - 241 BC 240 BC 239 BC

242 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
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**242 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	242 BC
Ab urbe condita	512
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2085 – -2084
Berber calendar	709
Buddhist calendar	303
Burmese calendar	-879
Byzantine calendar	5267 – 5268
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2395/2455) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2396/2456)
Coptic calendar	-525 – -524
Ethiopian calendar	-249 – -248
Hebrew calendar	3519 – 3520
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-186 – -185
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2860 – 2861
Holocene calendar	9759
Iranian calendar	863 BP – 862 BP
Islamic calendar	890 BH – 889 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2092
Thai solar calendar	302
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[edit] Events

The Roman consul and commander, Gaius Lutatius Catulus, blockades the Sicilian cities of Lilybaeum and Drepanum with a fleet of 200 ships.

The destruction of the Egyptian fleet by the Macedonians ends the naval supremacy of the Ptolemies but does not force them to relinquish their territories in Syria and the Aegean Sea.

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