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 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 310 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Seleucid Empire

• Antigonus tells Nicanor, one of his generals, to attack Babylonia from the east and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes to attack it from the west. Nicanor gets a large force but it is surprised and defeated by Seleucus at the river Tigris. Similarly, Demetrius Poliorcetes does not succeed.

Asia Minor

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

Sicily

• The tyrant of Syracuse Agathocles escapes from the siege of the city by the Carthaginians. He takes the war back to their land.

Roman Republic

• Rome has more trouble from the Etruscans. They are persuaded by the Samnites to stop 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

for more information, see Category:310 BC births.

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

Deaths

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