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Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC

Decades: 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC

Years: 315 BC 314 BC 313 BC 312 BC 311 BC - 310 BC - 309 BC 308 BC 307 BC 306 BC 305 BC

Events

• Cassander, the Regent of Macedon, probably has the boy-king Alexander IV and his mother Roxane secretly murdered at some point during this year, although the dead king is still recognized officially for five more years.
• Antigonus comes up against Seleucus in Babylon. There is considerable fighting within the city between supporters of the rival generals.
• Battle of Lake Vadimo: The Romans under Q. Fabius Rullianus defeated the Etruscans during the Second Samnite War and was forced to make peace.
• Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, leads a counterstrike against Carthage
• Antigonia Troas (later known as Alexandria Troas) and Antigoneia (later known as Nicaea) are founded by Antigonus I Monophthalmus

Births

• Aratus, Macedonian Greek mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, botanist and poet (possibly born in 315 BC)
• Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer and mathematician

Deaths

• Heraclitus of Heraclea
• Pytheas, Greek merchant, geographer and explorer

• 310s BC