318 BC

**318 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	318 BC;
Ab urbe condita	436
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2161 – -2160
Berber calendar	633
Buddhist calendar	227
Burmese calendar	-955
Byzantine calendar	5191 – 5192
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年; (2319/2379) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年; (2320/2380)
Coptic calendar	-601 – -600
Ethiopian calendar	-325 – -324
Hebrew calendar	3443 – 3444
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-262 – -261
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2784 – 2785
Holocene calendar	9683
Iranian calendar	939 BP – 938 BP
Islamic calendar	968 BH – 967 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2016
Thai solar calendar	226
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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
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Antigonus resolves to become lord of all Asia, and in conjunction with Cassander and 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 satraps 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 Greek states support him, including Athens. Cassander further effects an alliance with 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.

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 honour.

The state of Qin moves into the Sichuan basin, giving them control of that great food-producing plain.

Aristoxenus, a Greek 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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