310 BC Chr.
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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
- 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 )
- 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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