300s BC (decade)

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Events

  • 307 BC: Restoration of the Athenian democracy in Athens by Demetrius I Poliorketes.
  • 304 BC: End of the Second Samnitenkrieges; the Samnites accept the supremacy of Rome over Campania.
  • 304 BC: Construction of the Colossus of Rhodes begins ( suspected), completed in 292 BC.
  • 300 BC: Zeno of Citium founded Stoicism, a sense of Greek philosophy.
  • 300 BC: The African kingdom of Kush in Nubia collapses.

Science

  • 306 BC: Epicurus founded a school in Athens.
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