| 320 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 320 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 434 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2163 – -2162 |
| Berber calendar | 631 |
| Buddhist calendar | 225 |
| Burmese calendar | -957 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5189 – 5190 |
| Chinese calendar | 子年 (2317/2377) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2318/2378) |
| Coptic calendar | -603 – -602 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -327 – -326 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3441 – 3442 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -264 – -263 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2782 – 2783 |
| Holocene calendar | 9681 |
| Iranian calendar | 941 BP – 940 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 970 BH – 969 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2014 |
| Thai solar calendar | 224 |
Events
By place
Macedonian Empire
- 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.
China
- Zhou Shen Jing Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
By topic
Biology
- Theophrastus begins the systematic study of botany.
Demography
- Alexandria in Macedonian Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking over the lead from Babylon in Macedonian Babylonia.[1]
Births
- Timocharis of Alexandria, Greek astronomer responsible for the first recorded observation of Mercury and the first star catalogue (d. 260 BC)
Deaths
- 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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