310 BC Facts for Kids

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

310 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	310 BC CCCIX BC
Ab urbe condita	444
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 14
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 14
Ancient Greek era	117th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4441
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−902
Berber calendar	641
Buddhist calendar	235
Burmese calendar	−947
Byzantine calendar	5199–5200
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2387 or 2327 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2388 or 2328
Coptic calendar	−593 – −592
Discordian calendar	857
Ethiopian calendar	−317 – −316
Hebrew calendar	3451–3452
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−253 – −252
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2791–2792
Holocene calendar	9691
Iranian calendar	931 BP – 930 BP
Islamic calendar	960 BH – 959 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2024
Minguo calendar	2221 before ROC 民前2221年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1777
Seleucid era	2/3 AG
Thai solar calendar	233–234
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) −183 or −564 or −1336 — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) −182 or −563 or −1335

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

Events

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.

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.

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

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.

for more information, see Category:310 BC births.

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