288 BC

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Year of The Water Rooster癸酉( at the beginning of the year Water Monkey壬申)

Syria: 24/25 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Mediterranean

  • Beginning of the fifth Diadochenkrieges ( to 286 BC). Against Demetrius I Poliorketes, who had taken possession of Macedonia, is a coalition of Lysimachus forms ( Thrace ), Seleucus I ( Babylonia ), Pyrrhus I. ( Epirus ) and Ptolemy I (Egypt) belong. Pyrrhus and Lysimachus Macedonia to access from the west or east, Ptolemy appears with a fleet off the Greek coast to move the Greek cities to revolt against Macedon.
  • The Mamertines leave Syracuse and implant themselves in Messina.

Asia

  • Establishment of the port city Amastris on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, named after the wife of Dionysius, the tyrant of Heraclea.

Culture

  • Ptolemy I founded the library of Alexandria ( Museion ).
  • Poseidippos of Kassandreia wrote his first comedy.
  • In Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is a still existing poplar fig, the Sri Maha Bodhi is named, planted.
  • Year ( 3rd century BC)
  • 288 BC
April 2014 List of centuries 1st century BC 310s BC 300s BC (decade) 280s BC 270s BC 250s BC 298 BC 292 BC 284 BC 278 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Demetrius I of Macedon Seleucus I Nicator Pyrrhus of Epirus Epirus (ancient state) Ptolemy I Soter Posidippus
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