Seleucus I founds Antioch
Future third city of the Roman Empire after Rome and Alexandria
In 300 BC Seleucus I Nicator founded Antioch on the Orontes, one of four new fortified cities in northern Syria that secured his conquests. It became the capital of the Seleucid Empire, and under Rome, with perhaps up to half a million people, it was the third city of the empire after Rome and Alexandria.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 305 BC Ptolemy I proclaims himself king — 5 years earlier
- c. 300 BC Euclid's Elements — same year
- c. 285 BC Library of Alexandria — 15 years later
- c. 280 BC–247 BC Lighthouse of Alexandria — 20 years later
Asia
- c. 322 BC Founding of the Maurya Empire — 22 years earlier
Americas
- c. 300 BC Maya script — same year
- c. 300 BC–150 El Mirador, capital of the Preclassic Maya — same year
Alive at the time
- Mencius (aged 72)
- Epicurus (aged 41)
- Chandragupta Maurya (aged 40)
- Euclid (aged 25)
- Ashoka (aged 4)
- Zhuangzi (aged 69)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 67)
- Pyrrho (aged 60)
- Pytheas (aged 50)
- Qu Yuan (aged 40)