301 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC
Years:	304 BC 303 BC 302 BC 301 BC 300 BC 299 BC 298 BC

404 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	404 BC CDIV BC
Ab urbe condita	350
Ancient Egypt era	XXVIII dynasty, 1
- Pharaoh	Amyrtaeus, 1
Ancient Greek era	94th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4347
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−996
Berber calendar	547
Buddhist calendar	141
Burmese calendar	−1041
Byzantine calendar	5105–5106
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2294 or 2087     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2295 or 2088
Coptic calendar	−687 – −686
Discordian calendar	763
Ethiopian calendar	−411 – −410
Hebrew calendar	3357–3358
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−347 – −346
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2697–2698
Holocene calendar	9597
Iranian calendar	1025 BP – 1024 BP
Islamic calendar	1057 BH – 1055 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1930
Minguo calendar	2315 before ROC 民前2315年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1871
Thai solar calendar	139–140
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) −277 or −658 or −1430     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) −276 or −657 or −1429

Year 301 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Dictatorship of Corvus (or, less frequently, year 453 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 301 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.

Events

By place

Asia Minor

• In the Battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, the armies of Antigonus, the ruler of Syria, Asia Minor, Phoenicia and Judea, and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes are defeated by the forces of Lysimachus and Seleucus. Antigonus is killed in the battle.
• Antigonus' defeat and death secures Cassander's control of Macedonia. Through this victory, Lysimachus is able to add the greater part of Asia Minor to his European possessions while Seleucus now controls most of Syria. However, Demetrius is able to keep a foothold in Greece.

Seleucid Empire

• The southern part of Syria is occupied by Ptolemy.

Deaths

• Antigonus I Monophthalmus, Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who founded and became the first king of the Macedonian dynasty of the Antigonids (b. 382 BC)
• Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Greek historian (b. ca. 375 BC)