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[[File:World in 300 BCE.PNG|thumb|550px|right|Map of the world in 300 BC.[[File:Etruria, Populonia.jpg|thumb|A coin used as currency during 300 BC in ancient Greece. ]]]]

[[File:John William Waterhouse - A Sick Child brought into the Temple of Aesculapius (1877).jpg|thumb|left|A sick child brought into the Temple of [[Asclepeion|Asclepieion]], by [[John William Waterhouse|Waterhouse]] (1877)]]
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Year '''300 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Corvus and Pansa''' (or, less frequently, '''year 454 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 300 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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=== By place ===

==== Greece ====
* [[Pilgrim]]s travel to the healing temples of [[Asclepeion|Asclepieion]] to be cured of their ills. After a [[ritual purification]] the followers bring offerings or [[sacrifices]].

==== Egypt ====
* [[Pyrrhus of Epirus|Pyrrhus]], the King of [[Epirus (ancient state)|Epirus]], is taken as a hostage to [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] after the [[Battle of Ipsus]] and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of [[Ptolemy I Soter|Ptolemy]] and [[Berenice I of Egypt|Berenice]].
* Ptolemy concludes an alliance with King [[Lysimachus]] of [[Thrace]] and gives him his daughter [[Arsinoe II of Egypt|Arsinoe II]] in marriage.

==== China ====
* [[Warring States period]]

==== Seleucid Empire ====
* [[Seleucus I Nicator|Seleucus]] founds the city of [[Antioch]], some 20 miles up the [[Orontes River]], naming it after his father.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Antioch-modern-and-ancient-city-south-central-Turkey |title=Antioch modern and ancient city, south-central Turkey |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica Online}}</ref>
* After the death of his wife [[Apama]], Seleucus marries [[Stratonice of Syria|Stratonice]], daughter of [[Demetrius Poliorcetes]].

=== By topic ===

==== Art ====
* In [[Pella]], the capital of [[Macedon]]ia, the artist [[Gnosis (artist)|Gnosis]] creates his ''Stag Hunt'' mosaic floor decoration.
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