310 BC Chr.

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310 BC Chr.
Diadoch Wars
Cassander murders Alexander IV Aigos , son of Alexander the great , and his mother Roxane .
310 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	234/235 (southern Buddhism); 233/234 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	39th (40th) cycle , year of the metal pig辛亥 ( at the beginning of the year metal dog 庚戌)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 117th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3451/52
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDXLIV (444)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1/2 (turn of April); Syria: 2/3 (turn of the year October)

Events

Politics and world events

Western Mediterranean

• June: In the Battle of Himeras , the Carthaginian general Hamilcar defeats Agathocles , the tyrant of Syracuse .
• August: Agathocles then undertakes a naval expedition to defeat the Carthaginians in their African homeland. He lands at Latomiae on August 20 and devastates large areas of land around Carthage.
• The Etruscans , who had intervened in the Second Samnite War as allies of the Samnites in the previous year , are defeated by the Romans under Fabius Maximus Rullianus in the battle of the Vadimonian Lake . The Etruscan cities of Perusia (Perugia), Cortona and Arretium (Arezzo) then ask for peace.
• First mention of the city of Perugia .
• In the Samnite area, the Romans conquer Allifae.
• Roman soldiers land at Pompeii , from where they penetrate the Samnite territory; there is a tie battle.

Empire of Alexander the Great

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Coin of Demetrios Poliorketes, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

• While Seleucus I is in the east of his empire, Demetrios undertakes a raid on Babylon .
• 310/309 BC Chr .: After Alexander IV. Aigos , son of Alexander the great , was declared heir to the empire, Kassander sees his position of power endangered and has the boy and his mother Roxane killed.
• around 310 BC Chr .: Antigonus I. Monophthalmos founds Antigoneia, the later Nikäa, on the Marmara Sea.

Science, nature and the environment

• August 15th: Total solar eclipse in Sicily and Greece

Born

• around 310 BC Chr .: Aratos von Soloi , Greek author († 245 BC )

Aristarchus of Samos

• around 310 BC Chr .: Aristarchos of Samos , Greek astronomer and mathematician († around 230 BC )
• around 310 BC Chr .: Poseidippus , Hellenistic epigrammatist († 240 BC )

Died

• Alexander IV Aigos , King of Macedon, murdered (* 323 BC )
• Hui Shi , Chinese philosopher from Song State (* 370 BC )
• Nikanor , Macedonian general
• Roxane , wife of Alexander the Great, murdered (* around 345 BC )
• around 310 BC Chr .: Pytheas , Greek explorer (* around 380 BC )

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