315 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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Years: 318 BC 317 BC 316 BC315 BC314 BC 313 BC 312 BC
315 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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Births – Deaths
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Establishments – Disestablishments
315 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar315 BC
Ab urbe condita439
Armenian calendarN/A
Assyrian calendar4436
Bahá'í calendar−2158 – −2157
Bengali calendar−907
Berber calendar636
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar230
Burmese calendar−952
Byzantine calendar5194–5195
Chinese calendar乙巳(Wood Snake)
2382 or 2322
     to 
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
2383 or 2323
Coptic calendar−598 – −597
Discordian calendar852
Ethiopian calendar−322 – −321
Hebrew calendar3446–3447
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−258 – −257
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2787–2788
Holocene calendar9686
Igbo calendar−1314 – −1313
Iranian calendar936 BP – 935 BP
Islamic calendar965 BH – 964 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2019
Minguo calendar2226 before ROC
民前2226年
Thai solar calendar229

Year 315 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Philo (or, less frequently, year 439 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 315 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Alexandrian Empire

  • Antigonus claims authority over most of Asia, seizes the treasury at Susa and enters Babylon, where Seleucus is governor. Seleucus flees to Ptolemy in Egypt and enters into a league with him, Lysimachus (the ruler of Thrace) and Cassander against Antigonus. This leads to the First Coalition War.
  • Peithon consolidates his power base in the eastern part of the Empire.
  • Polyperchon flees to the Peloponnesus, where he still controls a few strong points, and allies himself with Antigonus, who has by now fallen out with his former allies.
  • Antigonus drives out Cassander's Macedonian forces of occupation from the Greek islands and forms the island cities in the Aegean into the "League of the Islanders", preparatory to his invasion of Greece. His ally, the city of Rhodes, furnishes him with the necessary fleet.
  • The King of Epirus, Aeacides, faces a revolt from his people and they drive him from the kingdom. His son, Phyrrhus, who is then only two years old, is saved from being killed by some faithful servants. Cassander takes control of Epirus.
  • The Macedonian port city of Thessaloniki is founded by Cassander and named after his wife Thessalonike.

Cyprus

  • Ptolemy's armies fight supporters of Antigonus in Cyprus. Ptolemy is able to re-conquer the island.

Sicily

In fiction

Births

  • Aratus, Macedonian Greek mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, botanist and poet (d. 240 BC)

Deaths

References

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