- 321 BC
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Macedonian Empire
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Antipater appoints Antigonus commander in chief of his army inAsia Minor and sends him withCraterus to fight againstEumenes , thesatrap ofCappadocia and a supporter ofPerdiccas .
* LeavingEumenes to holdAsia Minor againstCraterus and Antigonus, Perdiccas marches against Ptolemy, but when he fails to cross theNile he is murdered by mutinous officers. Prominent among the mutineers is Seleucus. A truce is arranged, leaving Ptolemy in power in Egypt and Seleucus in power inBabylon .
* The key remaining generals (diadochi ) of the lateAlexander the Great agree to thePartition of Triparadisus (a town in northernSyria ). This is a power-sharing agreement providing for a new regent to replace Perdiccas and it repartitions the satrapies of the empire that has been created by Alexander the Great. It follows but modifies thePartition of Babylon made two years earlier following the death of Alexander the Great. Under the agreement, Antipater becomes the regent of the Macedonian Empire on behalf of the two kings: the intellectually retardedPhilip III Arrhidaeus and the infantAlexander IV of Macedon while Ptolemy is confirmed in possession of Egypt and Cyrene.
* Ptolemy further strengthens his position amongst the diadochi by marrying Eurydice, the third daughter of Antipater.
* Antigonus and Craterus defeat Eumenes in battle but Eumenes escapes. Antigonus and Craterus then besiege him unsuccessfully in the mountain fortress of Nora on the border betweenCappadocia andLycaonia . Craterus is killed during the fighting against Eumenes when his charging horse (Diodorus) falls over him.Roman Republic
* Continuing successes by Rome's armies against the
Samnites forces the Samnites to sue for peace. However, the terms offered by Rome are so stringent that they are rejected by the Samnites and the war goes on.
* Two Romanconsul s, Spurius Postumius Albinus and Titus Veturius Calvinus, leading an invading force intoSamnium , are trapped in a mountain pass known as theCaudine Forks (Caudium) nearBeneventum , where they can neither advance nor retire, and after a desperate struggle, they are forced to submit to the humiliating terms imposed by the Samnite victor, Gaius Pontius. The captured consuls pledge themselves to a five-year treaty on terms most favourable for the Samnites.India
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Chandragupta Maurya , founder of theMauryan empire , establishes himself as the king ofMagadha .Births
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Deaths
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Craterus ,Macedon ian general (b. c.370 BC )
*Perdiccas , Macedonian general and regent after the death ofAlexander the Great (b. c.365 BC )
*Zhou Xian Wang , King of the Zhou Dynasty of China
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