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Heads of state

294 BC Chr.
294 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar 250/251 (southern Buddhism); 249/250 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 40th (41st) cycle , year of the fire hare 丁卯 ( at the beginning of the year fire tiger 丙寅)
Greek calendar 2nd / 3rd Year of the 121st Olympiad
Jewish calendar 3467/68
Roman calendar from urbe condita CDLX (460)
Seleucid era Babylon: 17/18 (turn of the year April); Syria: 18/19 (turn of the year October)

Events

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Antipater I , King of Macedonia , tries to get rid of his brother and fellow-king Alexander V after the murder of his mother Thessalonica , who then calls Demetrios I Poliorketes for help. He himself asserts claims to the throne, overthrows Antipater, who is going into exile, has Alexander V killed as an unpleasant competitor and declares himself king of Macedonia.
  • Lysimachus recognizes Demetrios' kingship, who in return leaves Lysimachus the Ionian cities of Asia Minor , which he had previously taken from Demetrios.
  • Demetrios occupies Athens and is celebrated by the city as the liberator from the rule of the tyrant Lachares . An attempt by Sparta to break away from Macedonian suzerainty, he throws down with a victory at Mantineia.
  • Seleucus I appoints his son Antiochus I as co-regent in his kingdom. This gets Stratonike , daughter of Demetrius I of Macedon and by then married to Seleucus I himself, for his wife.
  • Ptolemy I of Egypt recaptures renegade Cyprus .

Western Mediterranean

  • While the Etruscan cities made peace with Rome , the Samnites continued the Third Samnite War even after the defeat at Sentinum . At Luceria they succeed in another victory over Roman troops under M. Atilius , they can also devastate the area around the Roman city of Interamna. The Romans, on the other hand, conquer the cities of Milionia and Feritrum.

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