310s BC

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This article concerns the period 319 BC – 310 BC.

Events

319 BC


By place

Macedonian Empire

318 BC

By place

Macedonian Empire
  • Antigonus resolves to become lord of all Asia, and in conjunction with Cassander and Ptolemy. He enters into negotiations with Eumenes; but Eumenes remains faithful to the royal house. He raises an army and forms a coalition with the satraps of the eastern provinces. He then captures Babylon from Antigonus.
  • Antigonus marches against Eumenes, so Eumenes withdraws east to join the satraps of the provinces beyond the
    Tigris River
    .
  • Philip III Arrhidaeus
    of Macedon.
  • Although Polyperchon is initially successful in securing control of the Greek cities, whose freedom he proclaims, his fleet is destroyed by Antigonus.
Greece
  • In a power struggle in Athens after the death of Antipater, Phocion is deposed as the ruler of Athens, convicted of treason, and executed by those Athenians hoping to restore democracy to the city. Shortly afterward, the Athenians decree a public burial and a statue in his honor.
China
  • The state of Qin moves into the Sichuan basin, giving them control of that great food-producing plain.

By topic

Music

317 BC

By place

Macedonian Empire
Sicily
  • Acestorides, a native of Corinth, is made supreme commander by the citizens of Syracuse.
  • After twice being banished for attempting to overthrow the oligarchical party, Agathocles returns with an army and banishes or murders about 10,000 citizens (including the oligarchs), and sets himself up as tyrant of Syracuse. Acestorides is banished from the city.

By topic

Art
  • Private funeral monuments are banned in Athenian cemeteries.
Literature

316 BC

By place

Macedonian Empire
  • Eumenes and Antigonus, rivals to Cassander for control of Macedonia, meet in the Battle of Gabiene in Media to the northeast of Susa. Antigonus defeats Eumenes, with the aid of Seleucus and Peithon (the satraps of Babylonia and Media, respectively). The result is inconclusive. However, some of Eumenes' soldiers take matters into their own hands. Learning that Antigonus has captured many of their wives, children and the cumulative plunder of nearly 40 years of continuous warfare, they secretly open negotiations with Antigonus for their safe return. They hand over Eumenes and his senior officers to Antigonus in return for their baggage and families. Eumenes is put to death by Antigonus after a week's captivity.
Greece
Sicily
Roman Republic
China
  • Shu in Sichuan, in order to increase Qin's agricultural output and obtain a strategic platform from which to defeat the state of Chu
    .

315 BC

By place

Macedonian Empire
  • Antigonus claims authority over most of Asia, seizes the treasury at Susa and enters Babylon, where Seleucus is governor. Seleucus flees to Ptolemy in Egypt and enters into a league with him, Lysimachus (the ruler of Thrace) and Cassander, against Antigonus. This leads to the First Coalition War.
  • Aristodemus of Miletus, by order of Antigonus, sails to Laconia, where he receives permission from the Spartans to recruit 8000 mercenaries. He also meets Alexander and Polyperchon, thus establishing friendship between them and Antigonus [7]
  • Peloponnesus[7]
  • Peithon consolidates his power base in the eastern part of the Empire.
  • Rhodes
    , furnishes him with the necessary fleet.
Greece
Cyprus
  • Ptolemy's armies fight supporters of Antigonus in Cyprus. Ptolemy is able to re-conquer the island.
Sicily
  • Messina
    .
Roman Republic
  • The
    Nuceria to end their friendship with Rome.[10]

India

In fiction

314 BC

By place

Macedonian Empire
Greece
Roman Republic
China

313 BC


By place

Syria
  • Peloponnesus to free the cities.[14]
Egypt
Asia Minor
  • Eupolemus, one of Prepelaus' lieutenants, is sent with 8,000 infantry and 200 cavalry. However, some deserters from Eupolemus' strike force betray their plans to Ptolemy who quickly gathers 8,300 infantry and 600 cavalry from their winter quarters and marches against Eupolemus. In the middle of the night Ptolemy launches a surprise attack on Eupolemus' camp capturing the entire force with ease.[17]
  • Asia Minor and goes into winter quarters in Celaenae in Phrygia. Meanwhile, Antigonus' admiral Medius is ordered to sail the new Antigonid fleet from Phoenicia into the Aegean. On route he captures one of Cassander's fleets (the one that had escorted Prepelaus to Asia Minor).[18]
  • Asander agrees to send all his soldiers to Antigonus to help keep Greek cities autonomous[19]
  • Asander sends emissaries to Ptolemy and Seleucus asking for help[19]
Thrace
  • In the spring of 313 a revolt against Lysimachus is under way in the Greek cities of the northwestern Black Sea coast. Callatis, Istria and Odessus rebel. The latter two are quickly taken by Lysimachus, but Callatis holds out. Antigonus sends a fleet and an army under a general named Pausanias to aid the city, he also persuades the Thracian king Seuthes to rebel. Lysimachus leaves part of his army to continue the siege, while he himself marches against Pausanias. He fights his way past Seuthes through the Haemus Mountains and captures Pausanias' force, enrolling them in his army. Pausanias is killed in battle, but most of his officers are ransomed back to Antigonus.[20][21]
Greece
Italy
  • The Samnites take Fregellae in Latium, the Roman dictator Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus marches his army from Rome and moves to retake it, but the Samnites leave at night; Visolus places a garrison in the city.
  • The
    Atina, and Calatia by some sources.[27]
  • The Romans establishes
    Suessa Aurunca.[29]
Sicily
  • Deinocrates, the leader of the Syracusan exiles, sends envoys to the Carthaginians to ask them for help against Agathocles the tyrant of Syracuse. The Carthaginians, fearing for their own possessions in Sicily, send a large force to the island.[30]
  • The exiles send Nymphodorus (a friend of Deinocrates) with some soldiers to take Centoripini (some of whose elite had promised to assist the exiles in taking the city). Nymphodorus is killed in the failed attempt to capture the city. Agathocles executes everyone he suspects of sedition in the city.[31]

312 BC

By place

Cyrenaica
  • The people of Cyrene in the Cyrenaica rise up in a revolt against Ptolemy, putting the Ptolemaic garrison, which occupies their citadel, under siege. After they execute Ptolemy's envoys, who came to bade them to cease their sedition, he sends Agis (one of his generals) with an army and Epaunetus (another general) with a fleet to put down the rebellion. Agis storms the city, captures the rebels, and sends the ringleaders to Alexandria.[32][33]
Cyprus
Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia
Asia Minor
Greece/Macedon/Thrace
  • The people of
    Aeacides' brother, Alcetas, to the kingship.[41]
  • Alcetas advances on the Macedonian garrison of Acarnania under Lyciscus, a general of Cassander. Three battles are fought and a defeated Alcetas flees to a fortress in Epirus. Cassander marches the main Macedonian field army into Epirus and forces Alcetas to ally with him.[42]
  • Cassander marches on Apollonia, which people had driven out his garrison with the help of the Illyrians, but the Appolonians and Illyrians defeat him in battle, driving him out of western Greece for the time being.
  • The people of Epirus, tired of Alcetas (who ruled Epirus harshly), rose up and murdered him and his sons.
  • Telesphorus arrives in to the Peloponnese and starts expelling Cassander's garissons. He successfully liberates all cities and towns that are being held for Cassander by Polyperchon and his son Alexander; all except Sicyon and Corinth who are being defended by Polyperchon and Alexander themselves.[43]
  • Cassander sails against the city of Oreus on Euboea with a fleet of 30 ships. He blockades its port trying to force the city's surrender.
  • Asia Minor
    ; they break Cassander's blockade.
  • Cassander receives reinforcements from Athens (under Thymochares the Sphettian, descendant of Thymochares) and defeats Telesphoros' squadron.[44]
  • Antigonus sends his nephew Ptolemy, whom he has made Strategos of Greece, with 5,000 infantry, 500 cavalry and 150 warships (he had recalled and reinforced Medius' fleet) to take command of all Antigonid forces and affairs in Greece.[45]
  • Cassander abandons the siege of Oreus, concentrating his forces at Chalcis to counter Ptolemy who has landed at Bathys in Boeotia and has been reinforced by the Boeotian League with 2,200 infantry and 1,300 cavalry.[46]
  • Antigonus marches his main field army to the
    Hellespontine region threatening to invade Europe and attack Macedon, forcing Cassander to retreat to Macedon to prepare its defences.[47]
  • Propontis and tries to negotiate an alliance with Byzantium, but the city, at the urging of Lysimachus, remains neutral; without it Antigonus gives up on the idea of crossing over into Europe.[48]
  • The
    Epidamus and help the Apollonians and the people of Epidamus to remove the garrisons Cassander put there. They free Apollonia, but give the city of Epidamus to the Illyrian king Glaucias.[49]
  • Boeotian League. After Oropos he invades Attica putting pressure on Athens to negotiate a truce. From Attica he marches on Thebes, captures it and removes Cassander's garrison. He moves on to Phocis, drives out Cassander's garrisons in that region as well, and moves into Opuntian Locris, where he besieges Opus.[50]
  • Telesphorus, who had been subordinated to Antigonus' other nephew Ptolemy considered this an insult and ends his friendship with Antigonus through betrayal.[51]
  • Telesphorus enters Elis, fortifies its citadel, and enslaves the city. He then marches on Olympia plunders its sacred precinct collecting 500 talents; with his booty Telesphorus stars hiring mercenaries.[51]
  • Ptolemy soon restores the situation and persuades Telesphorus to give up his revolt.[52]
Sicily
  • Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, increased the size of his forces until they surpassed the Carthaginian garisson forces on the island.[53]
  • Carthage, concerned with Agathocles' increasing powers, decided to send 130 warships and 14,200 soldiers under the command of a general named Hamilcar (son of Gisco, grandson of Hanno the Great).[54]
  • Hamilcar's fleet was caught by several storms which sank 60 warships and destroyed 200 transports.[55]
  • After landing on Sicily, Hamilcar gathered the remnants of his army, he also started to hire mercenaries, enlist those Sicilians oppose to Agathocles and enrolled soldiers from the Carthaginian garissons already on Sicily. In this way he was able to muster a large army.[56]
  • Agathocles, fearing Gela would turn against him, took over the city, executed 4,000 leading Geloans he suspected of treason, and confiscated their property.[57]
Italy

311 BC

By place

Babylonia/Media/Susiana
  • Upon entering
    satrapy (province) of Babylonia gathering additional force along the way.[59]
  • Seleucus manages to pursuade Polyarchus, the
    Antigonid commander of one of the local districts, to join his cause. Polyarchus joins Seleucus with 1,000 soldiers.[59]
  • The remaining
    Antigonid loyalist in Babylonia retreat to the citadel of Babylon. They also put Seleucus' remaining friends in Babylon there (under a strong guard). Seleucus besieges the citadel and manages to take it by storm.[59]
  • Antigonus' commander of the Upper Satrapies, marches against Seleucus from Media (where he was stationed) with 10,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry. Seleucus hides his much smaller army (3,000 infantry and 400 cavalry) along Nicanor's line of march and launches a night attack on his camp, catching his opponent by surprise; Nicanor flees the ensuing battle while his army quickly surrenders.[60]
  • Seleucus marches to eastern Susiana and negotiates a treaty with the Cossaei (a warlike tribe) in the mountains between Susiana and Media.[61]
  • Seleucus reestablishes himself as
    Susiana (Elam
    ).
Asia Minor/Syria/Palestina
Greece
Italy
  • The Samnites take the Roman garrison of Cluviae and scourge their prisoners. Junius liberates the city and then moves on Bovianum and sacks it. The Samnites try to ambush the Romans, but the Romans are able to overcome their assailants.
  • The Etruscans are beseiging Sutrium, an ally which the Romans see as their key to Etruria. Barbula marches to their aid, and a battle is fought; the Romans start to gain the upper hand, but darkness stops the battle. Barbula's campaign ends indecisive.[67]
Sicily

310 BC

By place

Greece/Macedonia
Cyprus
Babylonia
Asia Minor
Sicily and Africa
  • The tyrant of
    Battle of White Tunis
    .
Roman Republic
Illyria

Births

319 BC

316 BC

315 BC

  • Aratus, Macedonian Greek mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, botanist and poet (d. 240 BC)

310 BC

Deaths

319 BC

318 BC

317 BC

316 BC

315 BC

314 BC

313 BC

312 BC

310 BC

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