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302 BC In other calendars | |
Buddhist calendar | 242/243 (southern Buddhism); 241/242 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 39th (40th) cycle , year of the earth-sheep己未 ( at the beginning of the year earth-horse 戊午) |
Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 119th Olympics |
Jewish calendar | 3459/60 |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita CDLII (452) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 9/10 (turn of the year April); Syria: 10/11 (turn of the year October) |
Events
Politics and world events
Western Mediterranean
- Cleonymos from Sparta supports his daughter colony Taranto against the neighboring tribes.
- Cleonymos leads a campaign against the Venetians near the mouth of the Po, who repel him near Padua .
- Alliance between the Romans and the Vestines on the Adriatic coast
Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
- Demetrios I Poliorketes renews the Corinthian Covenant , which he himself leads.
- Against Demetrios and his father Antigonus I. Monophthalmos a Diadoch coalition is formed again, to which Cassander , Lysimachus and Seleukos I belong, Ptolemaios I stays out of the conflict for the time being. Beginning of the Fourth Diadoch War .
- Lysimachus invades Asia Minor and conquers a. a. Sigeon, Synnada, Ephesus and Colophon .
- Demetrios, who had invaded Thessaly to fight Cassander, is ordered back to Asia Minor by his father Antigonus I in view of the threat posed by Lysimachus.
- Neoptolemus drives the 17-year-old King Pyrrhos I of Epirus out of his country; this subsequently joins Demetrios I Poliorketes.
- Mithridates Ktistes , son of Mithridates of Kios on the Sea of Marmara , who was executed by Antigonus I , flees with his followers from Antigonus to the Olgassys Mountains of Paphlagonia . Here he established the Empire of Pontus .
Culture / religion
- Seleucus I sends the envoy Megasthenes to the court of the Indian ruler Chandragupta in Pataliputra ; he returns with valuable accounts of Indian culture.
- Construction of the Salus Temple on the Quirinal Hill in Rome
Died
- Glaukias , Illyrian king
- Mithridates II , king of Kios (* around 386 BC )