315 BC
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Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades: 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC - 310s BC - 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC
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Events
- January - Battle of Gabiene between Antigonus and Eumenes. Eumenes is defeated and captured due to treachery, and executed at the insistence of Antigonus's lieutenants, despite the desire of Antigonus and his son Demetrius to spare him. Antigonus is now the undisputed master of Asia. He deposes Seleucus as Satrap of Babylon. Seleucus flees to Egypt.
- The Macedonian port city, Thessalonica, is founded by Cassander in honor of his wife Thessaloniki, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of the late king Philip Arrhidaeus.
- Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, seizes the city of Messina.
- City of Thebes restored by Cassander.
- Aratus, Macedonian Greek mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, botanist and poet (possibly born in 310 BC).
- Zhou Shen Jing Wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
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