302 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
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302 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 302 BC
CCCII BC
Ab urbe condita 452
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 22
- Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, 22
Ancient Greek era 119th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4449
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −894
Berber calendar 649
Buddhist calendar 243
Burmese calendar −939
Byzantine calendar 5207–5208
Chinese calendar 戊午年 (Earth  Horse)
2396 or 2189
     to 
己未年 (Earth  Goat)
2397 or 2190
Coptic calendar −585 – −584
Discordian calendar 865
Ethiopian calendar −309 – −308
Hebrew calendar 3459–3460
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −245 – −244
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2799–2800
Holocene calendar 9699
Iranian calendar 923 BP – 922 BP
Islamic calendar 951 BH – 950 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2032
Minguo calendar 2213 before ROC
民前2213年
Nanakshahi calendar −1769
Seleucid era 10/11 AG
Thai solar calendar 241–242
Tibetan calendar 阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
−175 or −556 or −1328
     to 
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
−174 or −555 or −1327

Year 302 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Denter and Paullus (or, less frequently, year 452 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 302 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.

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Events

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Asia Minor

Greece

  • Antigonus' son Demetrius Poliorcetes attacks Cassander's forces in Thessaly. Cassander loses his possessions south of Thessaly to Demetrius. Antigonus and Demetrius crown their success by renewing the pan-Hellenic league. Ambassadors from all the Hellenic states (with the exception of Sparta, Messenia and Thessaly) meet at Corinth to elect Antigonus and Demetrius protectors of the new league.
  • As Antigonus is finding his enemies closing in on him, a truce is made and the gains by Demetrius have to be abandoned. Demetrius reaches Ephesus to support his father.
  • Pyrrhus is dethroned as King of Epirus by an uprising and joins Demetrius while in exile.

Births

Deaths


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