Editing 318 BC

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Year '''318 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 Flaccinator and Venno''' (or, less frequently, '''year 436 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 318 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 ===
==== Macedonian Empire ====
* [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]] resolves to become lord of all Asia, and in conjunction with [[Cassander]] and [[Ptolemy I Soter|Ptolemy]]. He enters into negotiations with [[Eumenes]]; but Eumenes remains faithful to the royal house. He raises an army and forms a coalition with the [[satrap]]s of the eastern provinces. He then captures [[Babylon]] from Antigonus.
* Antigonus marches against Eumenes, so Eumenes withdraws east to join the satraps of the provinces beyond the [[Tigris River]].
* [[Cassander]], who has allied himself with Ptolemy and Antigonus, declares war on the regent, [[Polyperchon]]. Most of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] states support him, including [[Athens]]. Cassander further effects an alliance with [[Eurydice III of Macedon|Eurydice]], the ambitious wife of King [[Philip III Arrhidaeus]] of Macedon.
* Although Polyperchon is initially successful in securing control of the Greek cities, whose freedom he proclaims, his fleet is destroyed by Antigonus.

==== Greece ====
* In a power struggle in [[Athens]] after the death of [[Antipater]], [[Phocion]] is deposed as the ruler of Athens, convicted of treason, and executed by those Athenians hoping to restore [[democracy]] to the city. Shortly afterward, the Athenians decree a public burial and a statue in his honor.

==== China ====
* The state of [[Qin (state)|Qin]] moves into the [[Sichuan]] basin, giving them control of that great food-producing plain.

=== By topic ===
==== Music ====
* Aristoxenus, a Greek [[Peripatetic school|peripatetic]] [[philosopher]], and writer on music and rhythm, and a pupil of [[Aristotle]], writes a [[treatise]] on music called the "Elements of Harmony".
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== Births ==
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== Deaths ==
* [[Phocion]], Athenian statesman and general (b. c. [[402 BC]])
* [[Cleitus the White]], Officer of Alexander the Great 

== References ==
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