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Events
By place
Roman Republic
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Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes
consul for the fourth time. He defeats the
Samnites in a battle near Tifernum.
Greece
★ Following
Cassander's death from illness,
Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, succeeds his father as King of
Macedon, but soon after coming to the throne suffers from a wasting disease and dies.
Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother
Alexander V.
★
Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to
Greece with the aim of becoming master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece,
Lysimachus seizes his possessions in
Asia Minor.
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Ptolemy decides to support
Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman,
Neoptolemus II of Epirus (who is a son of
Cleopatra of Macedonia and a nephew of
Alexander the Great), but soon he has him assassinated.
India
★
Chandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola near
Mysore to live in the way of
Jains.
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Bindusara his son ascends to the
Pataliputra throne.
Births
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Deaths
★ King
Cassander of
Macedon (one of the
diadochoi ("successors"), the Macedonian generals who have fought over the empire of
Alexander the Great after his death) (b. c.
358 BC)