318 BC

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Year of the Water Hare癸卯( at the beginning of the year Water Tiger壬寅)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Empire of Alexander the Great

• Mai: The Athenians condemn the generals Phocion as alleged partisan Cassander's death.
• Ptolemy I succeed in the fight against Eumenes the conquest of Syria; Cyprus also comes under his control.
• Cassander triumphs over Polyperchon at Megalopolis, forcing him to retire to Macedonia.
• Peithon kills the governor of Parthia, Philip, and tried in sequence to win the east of Persia.

Roman Republic

• The cities of Puglia Teanum and Canusium submit to the Romans.

Born

• 319/318 BC: Pyrrhus I, King of Epirus († 272 BC)

Died

• Mai: Phocion, Athenian military leader (c. 402 BC)

• Year ( 4th century BC)
• 318 BC