310 BC

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Year of the Metal Pig辛亥( at the beginning of the year metal dog庚戌)

Syria: 2/3 ( the year in October )

Events

June - In the Battle of Himera defeated the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse.
August - Agathocles takes then a naval expedition to beat the Carthaginians in their African homeland. He lands on August 20 at Latomiae and devastated large tracts of land around Carthage.
The Etruscans, who had intervened in the previous year as allies of the Samnites in the Second Samnitenkrieg be defeated by the Romans under Fabius Maximus Rullianus in the Battle of the Vadimonischen lake. The Etruscan cities Perusia (Perugia ), Cortona and Arretium (Arezzo ) then ask for peace.
First mention of the city of Perugia.
In the territory of the Samnites conquer the Romans Allifae.
Roman soldiers land at Pompeii, where they penetrate into the territory of the Samnites; where there is an indecisive battle.

While Seleucus I staying in the east of his empire, Demetrios is taking a plundering expedition to Babylon.
August 15: Total solar eclipse in Sicily and Greece.
310/309 BC: After Alexander IV Aigos, son of Alexander the Great, was declared heir to the empire, looks Cassander endangered his position of power and lets the boy and his mother Roxane kill.
By 310 BC: Antigonus I founds Antigoneia, the later Nicaea, on the Marmara Sea.

By 310 BC: Aristarchus of Samos, a Greek astronomer and mathematician ( † about 230 BC)
By 310 BC: Poseidippos, Greek epigrams († 240 BC)

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