320 BC

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades:	350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC
Years:	323 BC 322 BC 321 BC - 320 BC - 319 BC 318 BC 317 BC

320 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
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Births - Deaths
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Establishments - Disestablishments

Events

Alexander the Great's various generals control different parts of Alexander's empire. Ptolemy controls Egypt, Seleucus controls Babylon and Syria, Antipater and his son Cassander control Macedon and Greece, Antigonus controls Phrygia and other parts of Asia Minor, Lysimachus controls Thrace and Pergamum and Eumenes controls the Cappadocia and Pontus areas.
Judea and Syria are annexed by Ptolemy and he gives Judea a large measure of self-government.
Eudemus makes himself master of the territories of the Indian king Porus, and treacherously puts that monarch to death.

Alexandria in Macedonian Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking over the lead from Babylon in Macedonian Babylonia.[1]

Timocharis of Alexandria, Greek astronomer responsible for the first recorded observation of Mercury and the first star catalogue (d. 260 BC)

Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Greek rhetorician and historian
Porus, Indian king spared by Alexander the Great (killed)
Zoilus, Greek grammarian, cynic philosopher and literary critic from Amphipolis in Macedon (b. c. 400 BC)

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