Editing 315 BC (section)

==== Macedonian Empire====
* [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]] claims authority over most of Asia, seizes the treasury at [[Susa]] and enters [[Babylon]], where [[Seleucus I Nicator|Seleucus]] is governor. Seleucus flees to Ptolemy in [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] and enters into a league with him, [[Lysimachus]] (the ruler of [[Thrace]]) and Cassander, against Antigonus. This leads to the ''First Coalition War''.
* [[Aristodemus of Miletus]], by order of [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]], sails to Laconia, where he receives permission from the Spartans to recruit 8000 mercenaries. He also meets [[Alexander (son of Polyperchon)|Alexander]] and [[Polyperchon]], thus establishing friendship between them and Antigonus <ref name="Diodorus12">{{cite book|last=Siculus|first=Diodorus|title=Library|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/19C*.html#60|volume=XIX|chapter=60}}</ref>
* [[Polyperchon]] is appointed general of the [[Peloponnesus]]<ref name="Diodorus12"/> 
* [[Alexander (son of Polyperchon)]] sails to [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]] in Asia. They make a pact of friendship and, by order of Antigonus, Alexander sails back to the [[Peloponnesus]]<ref name="Diodorus13">{{cite book|last=Siculus|first=Diodorus|title=Library|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/19C*.html#61|volume=XIX|chapter=61}}</ref>       
* [[Peithon]] consolidates his power base in the eastern part of the Empire. 
* [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]] drives out [[Cassander]]'s [[Macedon]]ian forces of occupation from the Greek islands and forms the island cities in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] into the "League of the Islanders", preparatory to his invasion of [[Ancient Greece|Greece]]. His ally, the city of [[Rhodes, Greece|Rhodes]], furnishes him with the necessary fleet.