-316

This page relates to the year -316 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Asia

In China, conquest of Chu and Ba by Qin. The armies of Qin enter the plain of Chengdu.
In India, the satrap Macedonian Peithon must give up the Sind for the Arachosie (Kandahar).

The Middle East

Wars of diadoques the: Eumène, statège in Asia of regency Macedonian, is overcome and killed by Antigone One-eyed the which dislodges then Séleucos of Babylonia. This last must flee towards Egypt near Ptolémée. Antigone is Master of Asia. The others Diadoque S are united against him.
Foundation of Nicée by Antigone One-eyed the.
Bérénice wife Ptolémé.

Europe

Agathoclès seizes the capacity with Syracuse.
Cassandre is Master of the Greece.
Olympias, the mother of Alexandre Large the, is besieged in Pydna by Cassandre, which takes the city in spring and delivers Olympias to the parents of its victims which kill it by lapidation.
Cassandre rebuilt Thèbes and bases Cassandréia on the site of Potidée.

Rome

Consul At of Sp. Nautius Rutilus, Mr. Popillius Lænas. Dictatorship of L. Aemilius Mamercinus Privernas.
Dictatorship of L. Aemilius Mamercinus Privernas. It takes again the war against the Samnites while leaving to besiege Saticula.
Battle of Lautulae, the Romans are beaten by Samnites.

Art & culture

January: Representation of the Dyscolos , comedy of Ménandre to the Lénéennes with Athens.

Births

Évhémère (approximate date).

Death

Eumène de Cardia
Peithon

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