308 BC

Year 308 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mus and Rullianus (or, less frequently, year 446 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 308 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:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC
Years:	311 BC 310 BC 309 BC 308 BC 307 BC 306 BC 305 BC

308 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	308 BC CCCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	446
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 16
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 16
Ancient Greek era	118th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4443
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−900
Berber calendar	643
Buddhist calendar	237
Burmese calendar	−945
Byzantine calendar	5201–5202
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 2390 or 2183     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2391 or 2184
Coptic calendar	−591 – −590
Discordian calendar	859
Ethiopian calendar	−315 – −314
Hebrew calendar	3453–3454
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−251 – −250
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2793–2794
Holocene calendar	9693
Iranian calendar	929 BP – 928 BP
Islamic calendar	958 BH – 957 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2026
Minguo calendar	2219 before ROC 民前2219年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1775
Seleucid era	4/5 AG
Thai solar calendar	235–236
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) −181 or −562 or −1334     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) −180 or −561 or −1333

Events

By place

Mesopotamia/Babylonia

• Antigonus marches his main army east to confront Seleucus. The Antigonid and Seleucid armies meet somewhere in southern Mesopotamia or northern Babylonia and a battle is fought to a draw. The next morning Seleucus launches a surprise attack on Antigonus' camp and wins a simple victory. After his defeat Antigonus gives up on his ambitions to reconquer the eastern provinces.
• Seleucus marches east and continues his conquest of the eastern provinces of the Macedonian Empire; the so called Upper Satrapies.

Greece

• Ptolemy crosses from Asia Minor into Greece, where he takes possession of Corinth, Sicyon and Megara.
• Ptolemy makes peace with Cassander
• Cleopatra of Macedon is assassinated by the order of Antigonus

Italy

• The Second Samnite War escalates when the tribes of the central Apennines, the Umbrians, Picentini, and Marsians join the war against Rome. However, Rome is able to control the uprising.
• The Etruscans sue for peace with Rome, which is granted by the Romans on severe terms.

North Africa

• The Carthaginians send out an army to coerce the Zuphones, a Numidian tribe, back into their alliance with Carthage; they are successful in their endeavour.
• Agathocles leaves his main army under the command of his son Archagathus encamped before Tunis while he, with a strikeforce of 8,000 infantry, 800 cavalry and 50 chariots, marches after the Carthaginian army.
• The Carthaginians send the Numidians to harass Agathocles' strike force, the skirmishing draws in more and more troops until it eventually leeds to a battle which is won by Agathocles.
• While Agathocles was in pursuit of the defeated Carthaginian army, the Numidians (who had retreated from the battle earlier on) attack his camp and ride off with a part of his army's booty. Agathocles returns to his camp, divides what is left of the booty (so no one can complain) and sets up a victory trophy.
• Agathocles sends Orthon the Syracusan to Cyrene to request aid in subduing Carthage from Ophellas (Ptolemy's governor of Cyrenaica).
• Ophellas recruits an army of 10,000 infantry, 600 cavalry and 100 chariots for his campaign in support of Agathocles.
• After a arduous march from Cyrenaica to Carthaginian Libya Ophellas' forces link up with Agathocles' army.
• Agathocles lures Ophellas into a false sense of security and launches a surprise attack on his camp. Ophellas is killed in the fighting and Agathocles takes over Ophellas' army, adding its numbers to his own.
• While the Carthaginian army is away from the city, Bomilcar tries to make himself tyrant of Carthage. He fails and is executed.

Births

• Hiero II, Greek Sicilian tyrant and king of Syracuse (approximate date)
• Zhao Sheng, Chinese chancellor of the Zhao State (approximate date)

Deaths

• Cleopatra of Macedon, sister of Alexander the Great and daughter of King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias (b. c. 356 BC)
• Ophellas, ruler of Cyrenaica (governor for Ptolemy).