316 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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316 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 316 BC
CCCXV BC
Ab urbe condita 438
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 8
- Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, 8
Ancient Greek era 116th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4435
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −908
Berber calendar 635
Buddhist calendar 229
Burmese calendar −953
Byzantine calendar 5193–5194
Chinese calendar 甲辰(Wood  Dragon)
2381 or 2321
     to 
乙巳年 (Wood  Snake)
2382 or 2322
Coptic calendar −599 – −598
Discordian calendar 851
Ethiopian calendar −323 – −322
Hebrew calendar 3445–3446
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −259 – −258
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2785–2786
Holocene calendar 9685
Iranian calendar 937 BP – 936 BP
Islamic calendar 966 BH – 965 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2018
Minguo calendar 2227 before ROC
民前2227年
Nanakshahi calendar −1783
Thai solar calendar 227–228
Tibetan calendar 阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
−189 or −570 or −1342
     to 
阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
−188 or −569 or −1341

Year 316 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Laenas (or, less frequently, year 438 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 316 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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Macedonian Empire

  • Eumenes and Antigonus, rivals to Cassander for control of Macedonia, meet in the Battle of Gabiene in Media to the northeast of Susa. Antigonus defeats Eumenes, with the aid of Seleucus and Peithon (the satraps of Babylonia and Media, respectively). The result is inconclusive. However, some of Eumenes' soldiers take matters into their own hands. Learning that Antigonus has captured many of their wives, children and the cumulative plunder of nearly 40 years of continuous warfare, they secretly open negotiations with Antigonus for their safe return. They hand over Eumenes and his senior officers to Antigonus in return for their baggage and families. Eumenes is put to death by Antigonus after a week's captivity.

Greece

Sicily

Roman Republic

China

  • King Hui of Qin decides, on the advice of General Sima Cuo, to invade and annex the ancient states of Ba and Shu in Sichuan, in order to increase Qin's agricultural output and obtain a strategic platform from which to defeat the state of Chu.

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