300 BC
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| 300 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| 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 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5209 – 5210 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2337/2397) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2338/2398) |
| 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
[edit] By place
[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).[citation needed]
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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.
