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305 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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305 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar305 BC
CCCV BC
Ab urbe condita449
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 19
- PharaohPtolemy I Soter, 19
Ancient Greek era118th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4446
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−897
Berber calendar646
Buddhist calendar240
Burmese calendar−942
Byzantine calendar5204–5205
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
2393 or 2186
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
2394 or 2187
Coptic calendar−588 – −587
Discordian calendar862
Ethiopian calendar−312 – −311
Hebrew calendar3456–3457
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−248 – −247
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2796–2797
Holocene calendar9696
Iranian calendar926 BP – 925 BP
Islamic calendar954 BH – 953 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2029
Minguo calendar2216 before ROC
民前2216年
Nanakshahi calendar−1772
Seleucid era7/8 AG
Thai solar calendar238–239
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
−178 or −559 or −1331
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
−177 or −558 or −1330

Year 305 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Megellus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 449 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 305 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.

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Seleucid Empire

Syria

  • Antigonus I Monophthalmus sends his son Demetrius to conquer Rhodes, which has refused him armed support against Ptolemy. He shows ingenuity in devising new siege engines in his unsuccessful attempt to reduce the city. Among his creations are a battering ram 60 metres long and requiring 1,000 men to operate it and a wheeled siege tower named "Helepolis" (or "Taker of Cities") which stands 40 metres tall and 20 metres wide and weighs 180 tons. This siege of Rhodes earns Demetrius the title Poliorcetes ("the City Besieger").

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