303 BC

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "303 BC" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Year 303 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Aventinensis (or, less frequently, year 451 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 303 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Seleucid Empire

• Maurya dynasty of India. In a pact concluded by the two leaders, Seleucus agrees to territorial concessions in exchange for 500 war-trained elephants.^[1]
• Seleucus refounds the town of Orrhoa in northern
  Macedon.^{[citation needed}
  ]

• Cassander and Lysimachus persuade Seleucus and Ptolemy to join them in trying to destroy Antigonus.^{[citation needed]}
• Arcadia join his side.^{[citation needed}
  ]

• The citizens of Tarentum seek the help of the Spartan general, Cleonymus. He is able to pacify the Lucanians with the agreement of the Romans.^{[citation needed]}

Births

• Xiaowen of Qin, 34th Ruler of Qin (d. 251 BC)

Deaths

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2021)

References