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Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Demetrius I Poliorketes, formerly king of Macedonia, dies in captivity Seleucid. Demetrius ' son, Antigonus II Gonatas continues the tradition of Antigonid but needs his father, since Macedonia is occupied by Lysimachus, bury in Thessaly Demetria.

Western Mediterranean

  • In the vicinity of Hadrian, the Romans built the colony of Castrum Novum (now Giulianova ).
  • Publius Cornelius Dolabella is a Roman consul.
  • 283/282 BC: The Romans defeat the Etruscans and the Gauls ( senones and Boii ) in the Battle of the Vadimonischen lake. They occupy then the senonische area and establish the colony of Sena Gallica.

Imperial China

Died

  • Demetrius I Poliorketes, King of Macedon (c. 336 BC)
  • 283/282 BC: Ptolemy I, King of Egypt ( * 367/66 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 310s BC 300s BC (decade) 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 293 BC 287 BC 279 BC 273 BC Demetrius I of Macedon Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 283 BC) Etruscan civilization Battle of Lake Vadimo (283 BC) Ptolemy I Soter
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