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300 BC Chr.
The languages ​​of Europe around 300 BC Chr.
300 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	244/245 (southern Buddhism); 243/244 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	39th (40th) cycle , year of the metal rooster辛酉 ( at the beginning of the year metal monkey 庚申)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 119th / 1st year of the 120th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3461/62
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDLIV (454)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 11/12 (New Year April); Syria: 12/13 (turn of the year October)

Events

Politics and world events

Eastern Mediterranean

• Demetrios I Poliorketes , whom the Athenians refused to accept after his defeat at Ipsos , attacks Lysimachus on the Chersonese peninsula and places his troops remaining in Greece under the command of the young Pyrrhus I.

Remains of the citadel

• around 300 BC Chr .: At the instruction of Seleukos I , the Greek city Dura Europos with a strongly fortified citadel is founded in the Seleucid Empire in today's Syria .

Western Mediterranean

• The Lex Ogulnia gave plebeians in the Roman Republic access to the priestly offices of the pontifices and augurs .
• The Etruscan Pyrgi becomes a Roman colony.

Africa

• around 300 BC BC: The kingdom of Kush moves its capital from Napata to Meroe , north of today's Khartoum .

Aerial view of the Nubian pyramids near Meroe

science and technology

Europe

• around 300 BC BC: Zeno of Kition founds the Stoa , a trend in Greek philosophy .
• around 300 BC Chr .: Timocharis of Alexandria writes a star catalog .
• around 300 BC Chr .: Aristyllos tries to determine the location with the help of the fixed stars .
• around 300 BC Chr .: The so-called " Stelzfuß von Capua ", an ancient leg prosthesis, is manufactured.

China

• around 300 BC Chr .: Construction of the first iron chain suspension bridge in China ( Yunnan )

Culture

• around 300 BC Chr .: In Japan the Jōmon period is replaced by the Yayoi period .

Born

• around 300 BC Chr .: Lü Buwei , Chinese philosopher, merchant and politician († 236 / 235 V. Chr. )
• around 300 BC Chr .: Lykon from the Troas , Greek philosopher († 225 BC )

Died

• around 300 BC Chr .: Aristoxenos , Greek philosopher and music theorist (* around 360 BC )
• around 300 BC Chr .: Eudemos of Rhodes , Greek philosopher (* around 370 BC )
• around 300 BC Chr .: Euclid , Greek mathematician (* around 365 BC )

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