300 BC
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Centuries: | 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC |
Decades: | 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC - 300s BC - 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC |
Years: | 303 BC 302 BC 301 BC - 300 BC - 299 BC 298 BC 297 BC |
300 BC by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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Gregorian calendar | 300 BC |
Ab urbe condita | 454 |
Armenian calendar | N/A |
Bahá'í calendar | -2143 – -2142 |
Berber calendar | 651 |
Buddhist calendar | 245 |
Burmese calendar | -937 |
Chinese calendar | 2337/2397 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2338/2398([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
Coptic calendar | -583 – -582 |
Ethiopian calendar | -307 – -306 |
Hebrew calendar | 3461 – 3462 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | -244 – -243 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2802 – 2803 |
Holocene calendar | 9701 |
Iranian calendar | 921 BP – 920 BP |
Islamic calendar | 949 BH – 948 BH |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 2034 |
Thai solar calendar | 244 |
[edit] Events
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[edit] Egypt
- Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus, is taken as a hostage to Egypt after the Battle of Ipsus and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of Ptolemy and Berenice.
- Ptolemy concludes an alliance with King Lysimachus of Thrace and gives him his daughter Arsinoe II in marriage.
[edit] Seleucid Empire
- Seleucus founds the city of Antioch, some 20 miles up the Orontes River, naming it after his father.
- After the death of his wife Apama, Seleucus marries Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
[edit] India
- The central texts of Jainism, the Jain scriptures, are recorded (approximate date).
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[edit] Art
- In Pella (in Macedonia), the artist Gnosis makes a mosaic floor decoration called Stag Hunt and even signs it with "Gnosis made it". It is today preserved at the Archaeological museum in Pella.