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year
Part of
260s
Followed by
269
Follows
267
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Commons category
268
topic's main category
Category:268
point in time
0268-01-01
category for births in this time period
Category:268 births
category for deaths in this time period
Category:268 deaths

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Year 268 (CCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Paternus and Egnatius (or, less frequently, the year 1021 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 268 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “268” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.