ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) −188 or −569 or −1341 — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) −187 or −568 or −1340
Year315 BC was a year of thepre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Cursor and Philo (or, less frequently,year 439Ab urbe condita). The denomination 315 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Antigonus claims authority over most of Asia, seizes the treasury atSusa and entersBabylon, whereSeleucus is governor. Seleucus flees to Ptolemy inEgypt and enters into a league with him,Lysimachus (the ruler ofThrace) and Cassander, against Antigonus. This leads to theFirst Coalition War.
Aristodemus of Miletus, by order ofAntigonus, sails to Laconia, where he receives permission from the Spartans to recruit 8000 mercenaries. He also meetsAlexander andPolyperchon, thus establishing friendship between them and Antigonus[1]
Peithon consolidates his power base in the eastern part of the Empire.
Antigonus drives outCassander'sMacedonian forces of occupation from the Greek islands and forms the island cities in theAegean into the "League of the Islanders", preparatory to his invasion ofGreece. His ally, the city ofRhodes, furnishes him with the necessary fleet.
The King ofEpirus,Aeacides, faces a revolt from his people and they drive him from the kingdom. His son,Phyrrhus, who is then only two years old, is saved from being killed by some faithful servants. Cassander takes control of Epirus.
The Indian kingPorus, ally ofAlexander The Great, is killed byEudemus, another general of Alexander. The son of Porus, Malayketu, seizes his territory back by killing Eudemus.
