312 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	340s BC  330s BC  320s BC  – 310s BC –  300s BC  290s BC  280s BC
Years:	315 BC 314 BC 313 BC – 312 BC – 311 BC 310 BC 309 BC

312 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	312 BC CCCXI BC
Ab urbe condita	442
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 12
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 12
Ancient Greek era	117th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4439
Bengali calendar	−904
Berber calendar	639
Buddhist calendar	233
Burmese calendar	−949
Byzantine calendar	5197–5198
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2385 or 2325     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2386 or 2326
Coptic calendar	−595 – −594
Discordian calendar	855
Ethiopian calendar	−319 – −318
Hebrew calendar	3449–3450
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−255 – −254
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2790–2791
Holocene calendar	9689
Iranian calendar	933 BP – 932 BP
Islamic calendar	962 BH – 961 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2022
Minguo calendar	2223 before ROC 民前2223年
Seleucid era	0/1 AG
Thai solar calendar	231–232

Year 312 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corvus and Mus (or, less frequently, year 442 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 312 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.

Events

By place

Seleucid Empire

• Ptolemy and Seleucus, the satrap of Babylonia, invade the satrapy of Syria. The resulting Battle of Gaza leads to a triumph for Ptolemy and Seleucus over Antigonus' son, Demetrius Poliorcetes ("sieger of cities"), who is captured but immediately released. Seleucus ceases his service to Ptolemy and returns to his former province, Babylonia. This event takes place on October 1 and becomes the starting point of the Seleucid era.

Sicily

• The Syracusans ask for help against their tyrant Agathocles from the Carthaginians, who, fearing for their own possessions in Sicily, send a large force to the island.

Roman Republic

• The Roman censor, Appius Claudius Caecus, a patrician, enters office and begins construction of the Appian Way (the Via Appia) between Rome and Capua. He also embarks on a program of political reform, including the distribution of the landless citizens of Rome among the tribes, which at this time constitute basic political units. Appius also admits sons of freedmen into the Roman Senate. He also asserts the right of freed slaves to hold office.
• Rome gets its first pure drinking water as engineers complete the first aqueduct into the city, the Aqua Appia.