237 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	260s BC  250s BC  240s BC  – 230s BC –  220s BC  210s BC  200s BC
Years:	240 BC 239 BC 238 BC – 237 BC – 236 BC 235 BC 234 BC

237 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	237 BC CCXXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	517
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 87
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy III Euergetes, 10
Ancient Greek era	135th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4514
Bengali calendar	−829
Berber calendar	714
Buddhist calendar	308
Burmese calendar	−874
Byzantine calendar	5272–5273
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2460 or 2400     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2461 or 2401
Coptic calendar	−520 – −519
Discordian calendar	930
Ethiopian calendar	−244 – −243
Hebrew calendar	3524–3525
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−180 – −179
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2865–2866
Holocene calendar	9764
Iranian calendar	858 BP – 857 BP
Islamic calendar	884 BH – 883 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2097
Minguo calendar	2148 before ROC 民前2148年
Seleucid era	75/76 AG
Thai solar calendar	306–307

Year 237 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caudinus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 517 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 237 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

Carthage

• Hamilcar Barca's success in defeating the mercenaries results in a growth in his strength as leader of Carthage's popular party and support for his proposed invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. However, as spokesman for the landed nobility, Hanno opposes the policy of foreign conquest pursued by Hamilcar Barca.
• Nevertheless, Hamilcar Barca leads a Carthaginian army in an invasion of the Iberian Peninsula with the aim of building a base from which war with Rome can be renewed. By skilful generalship and able diplomacy, Hamilcar extends Carthaginian dominion over many Spanish tribes.

Deaths

• Xun Zi, Confucian philosopher who has contributed to one of the Hundred Schools of Thought (b. c. 310 BC)