302 BC

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Year of the Earth- sheep己未( at the beginning of earth - horse戊午)

Syria: 10/11 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

  • Demetrius I Poliorketes renewed the Corinthian covenant, which he has himself assumes.
  • Against Demetrius and his father Antigonus I again formed a coalition Diadochen belong to the Cassander, Lysimachus and Seleucus, Ptolemy I hold for the time being out of the conflict. The beginning of the Fourth Diadochenkrieges.
  • Lysimachus falls into Asia Minor and captured, among other things Sigeon, Synnada, Ephesus and Colophon.
  • Demetrius, who had invaded Thessaly, to fight against Cassander, is recalled in view of the threat posed by Lysimachus from his father Antigonus I to Asia Minor.
  • Neoptolemus sells the 17 -year-old King Pyrrhus I of Epirus from his country; this is followed in the wake of Demetrius I Poliorketes.
  • Mithridates Ktistes, son of Antigonus I of executed Mithridates of Cius on the Marmara Sea, flees with his followers before Antigonus in the Olgassys Mountains Paphlagonia. Here he built the kingdom of Pontus.

Asia

  • Seleucus I sent the envoy Megasthenes to the court of the Indian emperor Chandragupta after Pataliputra; he returns with valuable reports back about Indian culture.
  • Pharnabazos founded in Georgia today the kingdom of Iberia.

Western Mediterranean

  • Cleonymus from Sparta supports its daughter colony of Taranto against the neighboring tribes.
  • Campaign of Cleonymus against the Veneti near the Pomündung.
  • Alliance between the Romans and the Vestinians on the Adriatic coast.
  • Construction of the temple Salus on the Quirinal Hill in Rome.

Died

  • Glaukias, Illyrian king
  • Mithridates II, King of Chios (c. 386 BC)
  • Year ( 4th century BC)
  • 302 BC
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