Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 350 B.C. through 301 B.C.
- -350 to -301
- Phoenician cities Sidon, Tyre, Aradus, and Byblus secede from
Persia c. -350
- The Gauls leave southern France and settle in northern Italy c. -350
- Etruscan power on the decline c. -350
- Revolt of the Jews against Artaxerxes III in Persia c. -350
- Trade agreement between Rome and Carthage -348
- Philip of Macedon take Olynthus -348
- Philip II joins with Thebans in -343 in the "Sacred War" against
the Phocians
- The first Samnite War (-343 to -341)
- Persians reconquer Egypt -343
- Philip defeats the Greeks at Chaeronea -338
- Assassination of Artaxerxes III of Persia, accession of Arses -338
- Philip of Macedon assassinated at Aegae (-336); succeed by Alexander
the Great (to -323)
- Assassination of Arses in Persia; accession of Darius III
Codomannus -336
- Alexander destroys Thebes -335
- Alexander campaigns against Persia: he defeats Darius at Issus
-333, conquers Tyre and Jerusalem -332, and defeats Darius at
Gaugamela -331
- Alexander occupies Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis -330
- Darius III of Persia murdered -330
- The Spartans under Agis defeated by Antipater of Macedon -330
- Alexander marries Bactrian princess Roxana -328
- Alexander invades India -327
- Renewal of war between Rome and the Samnites (-327 to -304)
- Roman army defeated by the Samnites at Caudine Forks -321;
Samnites defeated by the Romans at Luceria -320;
Samnites defeated by Rome at Vadimonian Lake -310;
Rome conquers the Etruscan town of Perusia (Perugia) -309;
end of Second Samnite War -304
- Alexander extends his empire to the Indus River, but is
forced by his generals to turn back -326
- Alexander the Great d. in Babylon in -323 (b. -356); his
empire partitioned among his generals
- A new Egyptian dynasty (-323) under Ptolemy Soter, one of
Alexander's generals, lasting until death of Cleopatra (-30)
- Demosthenes commits suicide -322 (b. -384)
- Wars among Alexander's successors -321
- Ptolemy Soter of Egypt invades Syria -320
- Polysperchon, Antipater's successor, restores liberty to
Grecian cities (-319)
- Chandragupta Maurya reconquers northen India from the
Macedonians and founds the Mauryan dynasty -319
- Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, put to death
by Cassander, son of Antipater -316
- Cassander founds Salonika, rebuilds Thebes -316
- The Seleucids of Syria rule Palestine -314
- Judea ruled by Antigonus I -312
- End of civil wars in Alexander's empire: Macedonia
goes to Cassander as regent, Thrace to Lysimachus,
Egypt to Ptolemy Soter, and Asia to Antigonus -311
- Demetrius Poliorcetes, king of Macedon, seizes
Athens from Cassander -307
- Carthaginians defeat Agathocles and besiege Syracuse
-307
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