| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC – 280s BC – 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC |
| Years: | 289 BC 288 BC 287 BC – 286 BC – 285 BC 284 BC 283 BC |
| 286 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 286 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 468 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2129 – -2128 |
| Bengali calendar | -878 |
| Berber calendar | 665 |
| Buddhist calendar | 259 |
| Burmese calendar | -923 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5223 – 5224 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲年 (2351/2411) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2352/2412) |
| Coptic calendar | -569 – -568 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -293 – -292 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3475 – 3476 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -229 – -228 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2816 – 2817 |
| Holocene calendar | 9715 |
| Iranian calendar | 907 BP – 906 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 935 BH – 934 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2048 |
| Thai solar calendar | 258 |