318 BC

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC
Years:	321 BC 320 BC 319 BC 318 BC 317 BC 316 BC 315 BC
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318 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 318 BC
CCCXVIII BC

Ab urbe condita 436

Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 6

- Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, 6

Ancient Greek era 115th Olympiad, year 3

Assyrian calendar 4433

Balinese saka calendar N/A

Bengali calendar −911 – −910

Berber calendar 633

Buddhist calendar 227

Burmese calendar −955

Byzantine calendar 5191–5192

Chinese calendar 壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
2380 or 2173
— to —
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
2381 or 2174

Coptic calendar −601 – −600

Discordian calendar 849

Ethiopian calendar −325 – −324

Hebrew calendar 3443–3444

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat −261 – −260

- Shaka Samvat N/A

- Kali Yuga 2783–2784

Holocene calendar 9683

Iranian calendar 939 BP – 938 BP

Islamic calendar 968 BH – 967 BH

Javanese calendar N/A

Julian calendar N/A

Korean calendar 2016

Minguo calendar 2229 before ROC
民前2229年

Nanakshahi calendar −1785

Thai solar calendar 225–226

Tibetan calendar 阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
−191 or −572 or −1344
— to —
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
−190 or −571 or −1343

Year 318 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccinator and Venno (or, less frequently, year 436 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 318 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

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Macedonian Empire

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Antigonus resolves to become lord of all Asia, and in conjunction with Cassander and Ptolemy. He enters into negotiations with Eumenes; but Eumenes remains faithful to the royal house. He raises an army and forms a coalition with the satraps of the eastern provinces. He then captures Babylon from Antigonus.
Antigonus marches against Eumenes, so Eumenes withdraws east to join the satraps of the provinces beyond the Tigris River.
Cassander, who has allied himself with Ptolemy and Antigonus, declares war on the regent, Polyperchon. Most of the Greek states support him, including Athens. Cassander further effects an alliance with Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King Philip III Arrhidaeus of Macedon.
Although Polyperchon is initially successful in securing control of the Greek cities, whose freedom he proclaims, his fleet is destroyed by Antigonus.

Greece

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In a power struggle in Athens after the death of Antipater, Phocion is deposed as the ruler of Athens, convicted of treason, and executed by those Athenians hoping to restore democracy to the city. Shortly afterward, the Athenians decree a public burial and a statue in his honor.

China

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The state of Qin moves into the Sichuan basin, giving them control of that great food-producing plain.

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Music

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Aristoxenus, a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm, and a pupil of Aristotle, writes a treatise on music called the "Elements of Harmony".