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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.
Died
- Alexander V , Macedonian king
- Lachares , overthrown tyrant of Athens