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Events

Politics and World Affairs

Empire of Alexander the Great

• Antigonus I attacks the of Ptolemy I held Syria and besieged for over a year, the city of Tyre. Seleucus I. operates under its as Ptolemy's admiral, secures for him Cyprus and then sails in the Aegean Sea.
• Antigonus allied himself with Polyperchon, which maintains bases in the Peloponnese.
• Antigonus proclaimed the freedom of the Greek cities. A little later adopt Ptolemy, against his allies Cassander, a similar proclamation.
• Antigonus can kill Peithon, who had tried to justify its own rule in the east of Persia.
• In Caria Ptolemy, the commander Antigonus, a victory against Eupolemos, the commander of Cassander succeed. Eupolemos is taken prisoner.
• Medios of Larissa, admiral of Antigonus, manages a blow against Cassander's fleet of Pydna, where he captured 36 enemy ships.
• Cassander besieged the city Kyllene ( in Elis ), the siege must but give up after Aristodemus, commander of Antigonus, the city comes to the rescue. Also from the nearby Achaean Dyme, where he had stationed a Macedonian garrison, Cassander of Aristodemus is sold, the freed Patras. Sicyon is held against it by Cassander commander Alexander, after his assassination of Alexander's wife Kratesipolis.
• Cassander defeated the Illyrian Taulantians under King Glaukias who had the Prince of Epirus Pyrrhus I. granted asylum. Cassander succeed while the capture of the city Epidamnos.
• The Aitolier conquer the city of Agrinio Acarnanian and kill their inhabitants.

Western Mediterranean

• Second Samnitenkrieg: The Romans conquer Sora. Several cities in the Ausonians, including Minturnae, rise up against Rome, which reflected the uprising. Also Luceria had participated in the survey; Here the Romans founded a new colony with 2,500 settlers. Prior to Capua to the Romans succeed in a victory against the Samnites, which follows the Roman army until their capital Bovianum where it overwinters.

Imperial China

• Time of the Warring States: The city of Guilin is established under the Qin Dynasty.
• Nan is 36th and last emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.

Died

• 314 BC: Aeschines, Greek orator (* 390/389 BC)
• 314 or 313 BC: Xenocrates of Chalcedon (* 396/395 BC)