310 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	340s BC  330s BC  320s BC  – 310s BC –  300s BC  290s BC  280s BC
Years:	313 BC 312 BC 311 BC – 310 BC – 309 BC 308 BC 307 BC

310 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	310 BC
Ab urbe condita	444
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 14
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 14
Ancient Greek era	117th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4441
Bengali calendar	−902
Berber calendar	641
Buddhist calendar	235
Burmese calendar	−947
Byzantine calendar	5199–5200
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2387 or 2327     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2388 or 2328
Coptic calendar	−593 – −592
Discordian calendar	857
Ethiopian calendar	−317 – −316
Hebrew calendar	3451–3452
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−253 – −252
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2792–2793
Holocene calendar	9691
Iranian calendar	931 BP – 930 BP
Islamic calendar	960 BH – 959 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2024
Minguo calendar	2221 before ROC 民前2221年
Seleucid era	2/3 AG
Thai solar calendar	233–234

Year 310 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rullianus and Censorinus (or, less frequently, year 444 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 310 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

Seleucid Empire

• Antigonus orders Nicanor, one of his generals, to invade Babylonia from the east and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes to attack it from the west. Nicanor assembles a large force but it is surprised and defeated by Seleucus at the river Tigris, and his troops are either cut to pieces or defect to the enemy. Similarly, Demetrius Poliorcetes fails to oust Seleucus.

Asia Minor

• Ptolemy attacks Cilicia, territory held by Antigonus.
• The cities of Antigonia Troas (later known as Alexandria Troas) and Antigoneia (later known as Nicaea) are founded by Antigonus I Monophthalmus.

Sicily and Africa

• The tyrant of Syracuse Agathocles escapes from the siege of the city by the Carthaginians with a fleet and carries the war with the Carthaginians back into his enemy's territory. He defeats the Carthaginians in the Battle of White Tunis.

Roman Republic

• Rome deals with renewed trouble from the Etruscans, who are persuaded by the Samnites to cease their alliance with the Romans. In the Battle of Lake Vadimo, the Romans under Fabius Maximus Rullianus defeat the Etruscans.

Illyria

• The Autariatae disappear due to Celtic migrations.

Births

• Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer and mathematician (approximate date) (d. c. 230 BC)
• Xun Zi, Chinese philosopher (approximate date) (d. c. 230 BC)

Deaths

• Pytheas, Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marseille) (b. c. 380 BC)

References