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 The poplar fig Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi is planted in Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka .
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| 288 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 256/257 (southern Buddhism); 255/256 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 40th (41st) cycle , year of the water tap癸酉 ( at the beginning of the year water monkey 壬申) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 122nd / 1st year of the 123rd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3473/74 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CDLXVI (466) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 23/24 (turn of April); Syria: 24/25 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Politics and world events
Mediterranean area
- Beginning of the Fifth Diadoch War (until 286 BC ). Against Demetrios I Poliorketes , who had seized Macedonia , a coalition is formed which includes Lysimachus ( Thrace ), Seleucus I ( Babylonia ), Pyrrhos I ( Epirus ) and Ptolemy I ( Egypt ). Pyrrhus and Lysimachus attack Macedonia from the west and east, respectively, Ptolemy appears with a fleet off the Greek coast to move the Greek cities to rebellion against Macedonia.
- The Mamertines leave Syracuse and settle in Messina .
Asia
- Founding of the port city of Amastris on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor , named after the wife of Dionysius of Herakleia , the tyrant of Herakleia Pontike .
Culture and religion
- Ptolemy I founds the Library of Alexandria ( Museion ).
- Poseidippus of Kassandreia wrote his first comedy.
- In Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka , a poplar fig that still exists today and is called Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi is planted.