Year 313 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Brutus (or, less frequently, year 441 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 313 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:
Decades:
Years:
313 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar313 BC
CCCXIII BC
Ab urbe condita441
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 11
- PharaohPtolemy I Soter, 11
Ancient Greek era116th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4438
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−905
Berber calendar638
Buddhist calendar232
Burmese calendar−950
Byzantine calendar5196–5197
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
2385 or 2178
    — to —
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
2386 or 2179
Coptic calendar−596 – −595
Discordian calendar854
Ethiopian calendar−320 – −319
Hebrew calendar3448–3449
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−256 – −255
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2788–2789
Holocene calendar9688
Iranian calendar934 BP – 933 BP
Islamic calendar963 BH – 962 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2021
Minguo calendar2224 before ROC
民前2224年
Nanakshahi calendar−1780
Thai solar calendar230–231
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
−186 or −567 or −1339
    — to —
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
−185 or −566 or −1338

Events

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Syria

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Egypt

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Asia Minor

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  • Prepelaus arrives in Caria and starts making plans with Asander. They decide on a surprise attack on Ptolemy, the commander of Antigonus' forces in western Asia Minor. Eupolemus, one of Prepelaus' lieutenants, is sent with 8,000 infantry and 200 cavalry. However, some deserters from Eupolemus' strike force betray their plans to Ptolemy who quickly gathers 8,300 infantry and 600 cavalry from their winter quarters and marches against Eupolemus. In the middle of the night Ptolemy launches a surprise attack on Eupolemus' camp capturing the entire force with ease.[4]
  • Antigonus, after finding a pass across the Taurus Mountains that was still open, marches his main army into Asia Minor and goes into winter quarters in Celaenae in Phrygia. Meanwhile, Antigonus' admiral Medius is ordered to sail the new Antigonid fleet from Phoenicia into the Aegean. On route he captures one of Cassander's fleets (the one that had escorted Prepelaus to Asia Minor).[5]
  • Asander agrees to send all his soldiers to Antigonus to help keep Greek cities autonomous[6]
  • Asander sends emissaries to Ptolemy and Seleucus asking for help[6]

Thrace

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  • In the spring of 313 a revolt against Lysimachus is under way in the Greek cities of the northwestern Black Sea coast. Callatis, Istria and Odessus rebel. The latter two are quickly taken by Lysimachus, but Callatis holds out. Antigonus sends a fleet and an army under a general named Pausanias to aid the city, he also persuades the Thracian king Seuthes to rebel. Lysimachus leaves part of his army to continue the siege, while he himself marches against Pausanias. He fights his way past Seuthes through the Haemus Mountains and captures Pausanias' force, enrolling them in his army. Pausanias is killed in battle, but most of his officers are ransomed back to Antigonus.[7][8]

Greece

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Italy

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  • The Romans capture Nola by setting fire to the buildings near the city walls and storming the city after the walls collapse.[15]

Sicily

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  • Deinocrates, the leader of the Syracusan exiles, sends envoys to the Carthaginians to ask them for help against Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse. The Carthaginians, fearing for their own possessions in Sicily, send a large force to the island.[17]
  • The exiles send Nymphodorus (a friend of Deinocrates) with some soldiers to take Centoripini (some of whose elite had promised to assist the exiles in taking the city). Nymphodorus is killed in the failed attempt to capture the city. Agathocles executes everyone he suspects of sedition in the city.[18]

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Ancient Sources

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Siculus, Diodorus. "74". Library. Vol. XIX.
  2. ^ Diod. XIX 79,1–3
  3. ^ Diod. XIX 79,4–5
  4. ^ Diod. XIX 68,5–7
  5. ^ Diod. XIX 69,2–3
  6. ^ a b Siculus, Diodorus. "75". Library. Vol. XIX.
  7. ^ Diod. XIX 73,1–10.
  8. ^ Siculus, Diodorus. "73". Library. Vol. XIX.
  9. ^ Siculus, Diodorus. "66". Library. Vol. XIX.
  10. ^ Siculus, Diodorus. "67". Library. Vol. XIX.
  11. ^ Diod. XIX 67,3–7
  12. ^ Diod. XIX 68,2
  13. ^ Diod. XIX 68,3–4
  14. ^ Livy 9.28.5–6; Diodorus 19.101.2. Livy notes that others say Poetelius Libo Visolus captured Nola.
  15. ^ Livy, IX 28,1–6
  16. ^ Livy, IX 28,7–8
  17. ^ Diod. XIX 102–103
  18. ^ Diod. XIX 103