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This article concerns the period 309 BC – 300 BC.
Births
309 BC
- Ptolemy II Philadelphus, King of Egypt (d. 246 BC)
308 BC
- Hiero II, Greek Sicilian tyrant and king of Syracuse (approximate date)
- Zhao Sheng, Chinese chancellor of the Zhao State (approximate date)
305 BC
- Zou Yan, Chinese philosopher (d. 240 BC)
- Arsinoe I, queen of Egypt
304 BC
- Ashoka, Indian emperor and ruler of the Maurya Empire in present-day Eastern India 268–232 BC (d. 232 BC)
- Erasistratus, Greek anatomist and physician (approximate date)
303 BC
- Xiaowen of Qin, 34th Ruler of Qin (d. 251 BC)
302 BC
- Maharani Devi, Mauryan empress and wife of Ashoka
- Xiaowen of Qin, Chinese king of the Qin State (d. 250 BC)
Deaths
309 BC
- King Alexander IV of Macedon (b. 323 BC)
- Cleomenes II, Agiad King of Sparta
- Heracles, illegitimate son of Alexander the Great and claimant to the throne of Macedon (b. 327 BC)
- Ptolemy (general) general of Antigonus I Monophthalmus
- Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great, and mother of Alexander IV of Macedon
- Zhang Yi, strategist of the Chinese state of Qin
308 BC
- 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).
307 BC
- Archagathus, son of Agathocles the tyrant of Syracuse.
- Heracleides, son of Agathocles the tyrant of Syracuse.
306 BC
- Philip, youngest son of Antigonus Monophthalmus.[1][2]
- Dionysius of Heraclea, tyrant of Heraclea Pontica.[3][4]
305 BC
302 BC
- Mithridates II of Cius, ruler of Cius in Mysia from 337 to 302 BC
301 BC
- 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)