300 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	330s BC  320s BC  310s BC  – 300s BC –  290s BC  280s BC  270s BC
Years:	303 BC 302 BC 301 BC – 300 BC – 299 BC 298 BC 297 BC

300 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	300 BC CCXCIX BC
Ab urbe condita	454
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 24
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 24
Ancient Greek era	120th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4451
Bengali calendar	−892
Berber calendar	651
Buddhist calendar	245
Burmese calendar	−937
Byzantine calendar	5209–5210
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2397 or 2337     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2398 or 2338
Coptic calendar	−583 – −582
Discordian calendar	867
Ethiopian calendar	−307 – −306
Hebrew calendar	3461–3462
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−243 – −242
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2802–2803
Holocene calendar	9701
Iranian calendar	921 BP – 920 BP
Islamic calendar	949 BH – 948 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2034
Minguo calendar	2211 before ROC 民前2211年
Seleucid era	12/13 AG
Thai solar calendar	243–244

A sick child brought into the Temple of Asclepieion, by Waterhouse (1877)

Year 300 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corvus and Pansa (or, less frequently, year 454 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 300 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. B.C.E is the abbreviation for before the Common/Current/Christian Era (an alternative to Before Christ, abbreviated BC).

Events

By place

Greece

• Pilgrims travel to the healing temples of Asclepieion to be cured of their ills. After a ritual purification the followers bring offerings or sacrifices.

Egypt

• Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus, is taken as a hostage to Egypt after the Battle of Ipsus and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of Ptolemy and Berenice.
• Ptolemy concludes an alliance with King Lysimachus of Thrace and gives him his daughter Arsinoe II in marriage.

Seleucid Empire

• Seleucus founds the city of Antioch, some 20 miles up the Orontes River, naming it after his father.
• After the death of his wife Apama, Seleucus marries Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes.

India

• The central texts of Jainism, the Jain scriptures, are recorded (approximate date).

By topic

Art

• In Pella (in Macedonia), the artist Gnosis makes a mosaic floor decoration called Stag Hunt and even signs it with "Gnosis made it". It is today preserved at the Archaeological museum in Pella.

Births

• Lord Shiva Was Born in 300 BC