287 BC Chr.
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| 287 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 257/258 (southern Buddhism); 256/257 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 40th (41st) cycle , year of the wood dog甲戌 ( at the beginning of the year water tap 癸酉) |
| Greek calendar | 1./2. Year of the 123rd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3474/75 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CDLXVII (467) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 24/25 (turn of the year April); Syria: 25/26 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Mediterranean area
- During the Fifth Diadochenkriegs march Lysimachus of Thrace and Pyrrhus I. of Epirus in Macedonia one. When Pyrrhus advanced to Beroia , the army of the Macedonian king Demetrios I Poliorketes ran over to him. The two conquerors divide the land between themselves. Demetrios evades to Asia Minor , while his son Antigonus II Gonatas tries to keep the position in Greece . Demetrios' wife Phila committed suicide in Macedonia.
- Lysimachus conquered Heraclea on the Pontus and makes the local tyrants Clearchus and Oxathras kill.
- Olympiodoros drives the Macedonian garrison out of Athens . The politician Demochares returns to Athens from exile.
- Eleazar becomes high priest of the Jews as the successor of Onias.
- Second documented secessio plebis (emigration of plebeians from Rome ) to the Ianiculum .
- The Lex Hortensia issued by the dictator Quintus Hortensius gives the plebeians full political equality within the Roman Republic : From now on, decisions by the plebiscites no longer require the approval of the Senate .
- around 287 BC Chr .: After the death of Theophrastus of Eresus , Straton of Lampsakos becomes head of the Peripatetic school.
Empire of China
- The states of Zhao and Wei ally against Qin during the Warring States Period .
Born
- around 287 BC Chr .: Archimedes , Greek mathematician and inventor († 212 BC )
Died
- Antipater I , King of Macedon
- around 287 BC Chr .: Theophrastus , Greek philosopher and naturalist (* 390 / 371 v. Chr. )
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