318 BC

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Years:	321 BC · 320 BC · 319 BC · 318 BC · 317 BC · 316 BC · 315 BC

318 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	318 BC CCCXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	436
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 6
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 6
Ancient Greek era	115th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4433
Bengali calendar	−910
Berber calendar	633
Buddhist calendar	227
Burmese calendar	−955
Byzantine calendar	5191–5192
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2379 or 2319     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2380 or 2320
Coptic calendar	−601 – −600
Discordian calendar	849
Ethiopian calendar	−325 – −324
Hebrew calendar	3443–3444
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−261 – −260
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2783–2784
Holocene calendar	9683
Iranian calendar	939 BP – 938 BP
Islamic calendar	968 BH – 967 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2016
Minguo calendar	2229 before ROC 民前2229年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1785
Thai solar calendar	225–226

Year 318 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccinator and Venno (or, less frequently, year 436 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 318 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

Macedonian Empire

• Antigonus resolves to become lord of all Asia, and in conjunction with Cassander and Ptolemy. He enters into negotiations with Eumenes; but Eumenes remains faithful to the royal house. He raises an army and forms a coalition with the satraps of the eastern provinces. He then captures Babylon from Antigonus.
• Antigonus marches against Eumenes, so Eumenes withdraws east to join the satraps of the provinces beyond the Tigris River.
• Cassander, who has allied himself with Ptolemy and Antigonus, declares war on the regent, Polyperchon. Most of the Greek states support him, including Athens. Cassander further effects an alliance with Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King Philip III Arrhidaeus of Macedon.
• Although Polyperchon is initially successful in securing control of the Greek cities, whose freedom he proclaims, his fleet is destroyed by Antigonus.

Greece

• In a power struggle in Athens after the death of Antipater, Phocion is deposed as the ruler of Athens, convicted of treason, and executed by those Athenians hoping to restore democracy to the city. Shortly afterward, the Athenians decree a public burial and a statue in his honor.

China

• The state of Qin moves into the Sichuan basin, giving them control of that great food-producing plain.

By topic

Music

• Aristoxenus, a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm, and a pupil of Aristotle, writes a treatise on music called the "Elements of Harmony".

Births

Deaths

• Phocion, Athenian statesman and general (b. c. 402 BC)

References