297 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	320s BC  310s BC  300s BC  – 290s BC –  280s BC  270s BC  260s BC
Years:	300 BC 299 BC 298 BC – 297 BC – 296 BC 295 BC 294 BC

297 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 297 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Roman Republic

• Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes consul for the fourth time. He defeats the Samnites in a battle near Tifernum.

Greece

• After Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, becomes King of Macedon. Soon after this he suffers from a wasting disease and dies. Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother Alexander V.
• Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to Greece to become master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece, Lysimachus seizes his possessions in Asia Minor.
• Ptolemy decides to support Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman, Neoptolemus II of Epirus. But he has him assassinated.

India

• Chandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola near Mysore to live in the way of Jains.
• Bindusara his son goes to the Pataliputra throne.

Deaths

• King Cassander of Macedon (b. c. 358 BC)