304 BC

Year 304 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sophus and Saverrio (or, less frequently, year 450 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 304 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
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304 BC by topic
Politics
Categories
304 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar304 BC
CCCIII BC
Ab urbe condita450
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 20
- PharaohPtolemy I Soter, 20
Ancient Greek era119th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar4447
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−896
Berber calendar647
Buddhist calendar241
Burmese calendar−941
Byzantine calendar5205–5206
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
2393 or 2333
    — to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
2394 or 2334
Coptic calendar−587 – −586
Discordian calendar863
Ethiopian calendar−311 – −310
Hebrew calendar3457–3458
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−247 – −246
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2797–2798
Holocene calendar9697
Iranian calendar925 BP – 924 BP
Islamic calendar953 BH – 952 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2030
Minguo calendar2215 before ROC
民前2215年
Nanakshahi calendar−1771
Seleucid era8/9 AG
Thai solar calendar239–240
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
−177 or −558 or −1330
    — to —
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
−176 or −557 or −1329

Events

Greece
  • Demetrius shows ingenuity in devising a new siege engine: a wheeled siege tower named Helepolis (or "Taker of Cities"), which stands 40 meters tall and 20 meters wide and weighs 180 tons.[1]
  • The Siege of Rhodes ends after a year.
  • Demetrius Poliorcetes and the Rhodians come to a truce, with the agreement that the city should be autonomous, should keep its own revenue and that the Rhodians should be allies of Antigonus unless he is at war with Ptolemy.[2]
  • Antigonus then concludes a peace treaty and an alliance with the island state, guaranteeing it autonomy and neutrality in his conflicts with Ptolemy.[3][2]
  • Cassander invades Attica and besieges Athens. He captures the island of Salamis off the coast of Athens.
  • Demetrius Poliorcetes invades mainland Greece for Asia-Minor, drives Cassander out of central Greece and liberates Athens. In return, the Athenians bestow on him a new religious honour, synnaos (meaning "having the same temple") of the temple of the goddess Athena.

Roman Republic
  • The second Samnite war formally ends with a peace agreement in which the Samnites obtain peace on terms that are severe but not as crushing as those agreed by the Romans with the Etruscans four years earlier. Under the peace, Rome gains no territory, but the Samnites renounce their hegemony over Campania. Rome is also successful in ending the revolts amongst the tribes surrounding Roman territory.[4]

Sicily

India

Births

Deaths

    References
    1. Siculus, Diodorus. "91". Library. Vol. XX.
    2. Siculus, Diodorus. "99". Library. Vol. XX.
    3. Dupuy, R. Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor N. (1986). The Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: Harper & Row. p. 54. ISBN 0-06-181235-8.
    4. Dupuy, R. Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor N. (1986). The Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: Harper & Row. p. 59. ISBN 0-06-181235-8.
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