301 BC

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  280s BC  270s BC
Years:	304 BC 303 BC 302 BC – 301 BC – 300 BC 299 BC 298 BC

301 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	301 BC CCC BC
Ab urbe condita	453
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 23
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 23
Ancient Greek era	119th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4450
Bengali calendar	−893
Berber calendar	650
Buddhist calendar	244
Burmese calendar	−938
Byzantine calendar	5208–5209
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 2396 or 2336     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2397 or 2337
Coptic calendar	−584 – −583
Discordian calendar	866
Ethiopian calendar	−308 – −307
Hebrew calendar	3460–3461
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−244 – −243
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2801–2802
Holocene calendar	9700
Iranian calendar	922 BP – 921 BP
Islamic calendar	950 BH – 949 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2033
Minguo calendar	2212 before ROC 民前2212年
Seleucid era	11/12 AG
Thai solar calendar	242–243

Year 301 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Dictatorship of Corvus (or, less frequently, year 453 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 301 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

By place

Asia Minor

• In the Battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, the armies of Antigonus, the ruler of Syria, Asia Minor, Phoenicia and Judea, and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes are defeated by the forces of Lysimachus and Seleucus. Antigonus is killed in the battle.
• Antigonus' defeat and death secures Cassander control of Macedonia. Through this victory, Lysimachus is able to add the greater part of Asia Minor to his European possessions while Seleucus now controls most of Syria. However, Demetrius is able to keep a foothold in Greece.

Seleucid Empire

• The southern part of Syria is occupied by Ptolemy.

Deaths

• 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)