313 BC

Year 313 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Brutus (or, less frequently, year 441 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 313 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.

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:	316 BC 315 BC 314 BC 313 BC 312 BC 311 BC 310 BC

313 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	313 BC CCCXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	441
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 11
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 11
Ancient Greek era	116th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4438
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−905
Berber calendar	638
Buddhist calendar	232
Burmese calendar	−950
Byzantine calendar	5196–5197
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2385 or 2178     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2386 or 2179
Coptic calendar	−596 – −595
Discordian calendar	854
Ethiopian calendar	−320 – −319
Hebrew calendar	3448–3449
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−256 – −255
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2788–2789
Holocene calendar	9688
Iranian calendar	934 BP – 933 BP
Islamic calendar	963 BH – 962 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2021
Minguo calendar	2224 before ROC 民前2224年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1780
Thai solar calendar	230–231
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) −186 or −567 or −1339     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) −185 or −566 or −1338

Events

By place

Macedonian Empire

• Antigonus sends Telesphorus (general) to the Peloponnesus to free the cities.

Egypt

• Ptolemy, whose Egyptian kingdom includes Cyprus, puts down a revolt there. A revolt in Cyrene is also crushed.

Greece

• Becoming tired of the Macedonian rule, the people of Epirus recall their former king Aeacides. Cassander immediately sends an army against him under his brother, Philip, who is diverted from invading Aetolia.
• Philip defeats Aeacides in a battle. Aeacides, with the remnant of his forces, joins the Aetolians. A second battle takes place, in which Philip is again victorious, and Aeacides is killed. The remaining Aetolian army takes refuge in the surrounding mountains.

Asia

• Asander agrees to send all his soldiers to Antigonus to help keep Greek cities autonomous
• Asander sends emissaries to Ptolemy and Seleucus asking for help

Deaths

• Aeacides, King of Epirus