HistoryTimelineLayer:Hellenistic Period of Greece
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sources: Timeline of ancient Greece events: King Alexander dies, his generals vie for power in Wars of the Diadochi;;;;-323;; First War of the Diadochi;;;;-322;-320; Partition of Triparadisus.;;;;-320;; Second War of the Diadochi;;;;-320;-311; Menander, Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize.;;;;-316;; Seleucid Empire;;;;-312;-63; Zeno of Citium founds his stoic school in Athens.;;;;-310;; Battle of White Tunis (near modern Tunis, Tunisia);;;;-310;; Epicurus founds his philosophic school in Athens.;;;;-307;; Ptolemaic Kingdom;;;;-305;-30; Seleucia, also known as or (modern Iraq) is founded by Seleucus I Nicator;;;;-305;; Battle of Ipsus.;;;;-301;; Antioch, is founded by Seleucus I Nicator in honor of his father Antiochus;;;;-300;; Euclid, Greek mathematician, publishes Elements, treating both geometry and number theory (see also Euclidean algorithm).;;;;-300;; Athens falls to Demetrius, Lachares killed.;;;;-295;; Kingdom of Pergamon;Attalid dynasty;;;-282;-133; Creation of the Achaean League.;;;;-281;; The Greek colony of Aspálathos (Aσπάλαθος) is founded (modern day Split).;;;;-280;; Pyrrhic War;;;;-280;-275; Gallic invasion of the Balkans;;;;-279;; First Syrian War;;;;-274;-271; Chremonidean War;;;;-267;-262; Archimedes, Greek mathematician, develops Archimedes' screw, specific gravity, center of gravity\; anticipates discoveries of integral calculus.;;;;-265;; Second Syrian War;;;;-260;-253; Greco-Bactrian Kingdom;;;;-256;-125; Third Syrian War;;;;-246;-241; Tanais (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) is founded by merchant adventurers from Miletus;;;;-235;; Euthydemus I of the Greco-Bactrians led expeditions as far as Kashgar and Ürümqi in Xinjiang, leading to the first known contacts between China and the West.;;;;-220;; Fourth Syrian War;;;;-219;-217; First Macedonian War;;;;-214;-205; Fifth Syrian War;;;;-203;-200; Second Macedonian War;;;;-200;-196; Roman–Syrian War;;;;-192;-188; Indo-Greek Kingdom;;;;-180;10; Third Macedonian War;;;;-172;-167; Sixth Syrian War;;;;-170;-168; Attack of the Indo-Greeks on Pataliputra, a magnificent fortified city with 570 towers and 64 gates according to Megasthenes, who describes the ultimate destruction of the city's walls.;;;;-155;; King Attalus II of Pergamon founds the city of Attaleia or Antalya in his honour.;;;;-150;; Fourth Macedonian War.;;;;-150;-148; Battle of Corinth;;;;-146;;