Editing Timeline of ancient Greece (section)

==Hellenistic Greece (323–30 BC)==
*[[323 BC|323]] King Alexander dies, his generals vie for power in [[Wars of the Diadochi]]
*[[322 BC|322]]–[[320 BC|320]]  First War of the Diadochi.
*[[320 BC|320]] [[Partition of Triparadisus]]
*[[320 BC|320]]–[[311 BC|311]]  [[Second War of the Diadochi]]
*[[316 BC|316]] [[Menander]], Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize.
*[[312 BC|312]]–[[63 BC|63]] [[Seleucid Empire]]
*[[310 BC|310]] [[Zeno of Citium]] founds his [[Stoicism|stoic]] school in Athens.
*[[310 BC|310]] [[Battle of White Tunis (310 BC)|Battle of White Tunis]] (near modern [[Tunis]], [[Tunisia]])
*[[307 BC|307]] [[Epicurus]] founds his philosophic school in Athens.
*[[305 BC|305]]–[[30 BC|30]] [[Ptolemaic Kingdom]]
*[[305 BC|305]] [[Seleucia]], also known as {{nowrap|''Seleucia-on-Tigris''}} or {{nowrap|''Seleucia on the Tigris''}} (modern [[Iraq]]) is founded by [[Seleucus I Nicator]]
*[[301 BC|301]] [[Battle of Ipsus]]
*[[300 BC|300]] [[Antioch]], is founded by [[Seleucus I Nicator]] in honor of his father [[Antiochus (father of Seleucus I Nicator)|Antiochus]]
*[[300 BC|300]] [[Euclid]], Greek mathematician, publishes ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]],'' treating both geometry and number theory (see also [[Euclidean algorithm]]).
*[[295 BC|295]] [[Athens]] falls to [[Demetrius I of Macedon|Demetrius]], [[Lachares]] killed.
*[[282 BC|282]]–[[133 BC|133]] [[Attalid dynasty|Kingdom of Pergamon]]
*[[281 BC|281]]  Creation of the [[Achaean League]]
*[[280 BC|280]] The [[Greek colony]] of Aspálathos (Aσπάλαθος) is founded (modern day [[Split (city)|Split]]).
*[[280 BC|280]]–[[275 BC|275]] [[Pyrrhic War]]
*[[279 BC|279]] [[Gallic invasion of the Balkans]]
*[[274 BC|274]]–[[271 BC|271]] [[First Syrian War]]
*[[267 BC|267]]–[[262 BC|262]] [[Chremonidean War]]
*[[265 BC|265]] [[Archimedes]], Greek mathematician, develops [[Archimedes' screw]], [[specific gravity]], [[center of gravity]]; anticipates discoveries of integral calculus.
*[[260 BC|260]]–[[253 BC|253]] [[Second Syrian War]]
*[[256 BC|256]]–[[125 BC|125]] [[Greco-Bactrian Kingdom]]
*[[246 BC|246]]–[[241 BC|241]] [[Third Syrian War]]
*[[235 BC|235]] [[Tanais|Tanais (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)]] is founded by merchant adventurers from [[Miletus]]
*[[220 BC|220]] [[Euthydemus I]] of the Greco-Bactrians led expeditions as far as [[Kashgar]] and [[Ürümqi]] in [[Xinjiang]], leading to the first known contacts between China and the West.<ref>The Greek historian [[Strabo]] too writes that: "they extended their empire even as far as the [[Serica|Seres]] (Chinese) and the [[Phryni]]". ([[Strabo]], XI.XI.I)</ref>
*[[219 BC|219]]–[[217 BC|217]] [[Fourth Syrian War]]
*[[214 BC|214]]–[[205 BC|205]] [[First Macedonian War]]
*[[203 BC|203]]–[[200 BC|200]] [[Fifth Syrian War]]
*[[200 BC|200]]–[[196 BC|196]] [[Second Macedonian War]]
*[[192 BC|192]]–[[188 BC|188]] [[Roman–Syrian War]]
*[[180 BC|180]]–[[10 AD]] [[Indo-Greek Kingdom]]
*[[172 BC|172]]–[[167 BC|167]] [[Third Macedonian War]]
*[[170 BC|170]]–[[168 BC|168]] [[Sixth Syrian War]]
*[[155 BC]] Attack of the Indo-Greeks on [[Pataliputra]],<ref>"The advance of the Greek to Pataliputra is recorded from the Indian side in the Yuga-purana", Tarn, p.145</ref> a magnificent fortified city with 570 towers and 64 gates according to [[Megasthenes]],<ref>"The greatest city in India is that which is called Palimbothra, in the dominions of the Prasians [[...]] Megasthenes informs us that this city stretched in the inhabited quarters to an extreme length on each side of eighty stadia, and that its breadth was fifteen stadia, and that a ditch encompassed it all round, which was six hundred feet in breadth and thirty cubits in depth, and that the wall was crowned with 570 towers and had four-and-sixty gates." Arr. Ind. 10. "Of Pataliputra and the Manners of the Indians.", quoting Megasthenes [http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Foreign_Views/GreekRoman/Megasthenes-Indika.htm Text] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210080315/http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Foreign_Views/GreekRoman/Megasthenes-Indika.htm |date=December 10, 2008 }}</ref> who describes the ultimate destruction of the city's walls.<ref>"The text of the Yuga Purana, as we have shown, gives an explicit clue to the period and nature of the invasion of Pataliputra in which the Indo-Greeks took part, for it says that the Pancalas and the Mathuras were the other powers who attacked Saketa and destroyed Pataliputra", Narain, ''The Indo-Greeks'', p. 112.</ref>
*[[150 BC]] King [[Attalus II Philadelphus|Attalus II]] of [[Pergamon]] founds the city of ''Attaleia'' or [[Antalya]] in his honour.
*[[150 BC|150]]–[[148 BC|148]] [[Fourth Macedonian War]]
*[[146 BC|146]] [[Battle of Corinth (146 BC)|Battle of Corinth]]
*[[30 BC|30]] Death of Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra