- 320 BC
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Events
By place
Macedonian Empire
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Alexander the Great 's various generals control different parts of Alexander's empire. Ptolemy controls Egypt, Seleucus controlsBabylon andSyria ,Antipater and his sonCassander controlMacedon andGreece , Antigonus controlsPhrygia and other parts ofAsia Minor ,Lysimachus controlsThrace andPergamum andEumenes controls theCappadocia andPontus areas.
*Judea andSyria are annexed by Ptolemy and he gives Judea a large measure of self-government.
* Eudemus makes himself master of the territories of the Indian kingPorus , and treacherously puts that monarch to death.China
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Zhou Shen Jing Wang becomes King of theZhou Dynasty ofChina .By topic
Biology
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Theophrastus begins the systematic study ofbotany .Demography
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Alexandria inMacedon ian Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking over the lead fromBabylon inMacedon ianBabylonia . [http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm]Births
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Timocharis of Alexandria , Greek astronomer responsible for the first recorded observation of Mercury and the firststar catalogue (d.260 BC )Deaths
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Anaximenes of Lampsacus , Greek rhetorician and historian
*Porus , Indian king spared by Alexander the Great (killed)
*Zoilus , Greek grammarian,cynic philosopher and literary critic fromAmphipolis inMacedon (b. c.400 BC )
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