325 BC

Year 325 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Camillus and Scaeva (or, less frequently, year 429 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 325 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.

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
Years:	328 BC 327 BC 326 BC 325 BC 324 BC 323 BC 322 BC

325 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	325 BC CCCXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	429
Ancient Egypt era	XXXII dynasty, 8
- Pharaoh	Alexander the Great, 8
Ancient Greek era	113th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4426
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−917
Berber calendar	626
Buddhist calendar	220
Burmese calendar	−962
Byzantine calendar	5184–5185
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2372 or 2312     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2373 or 2313
Coptic calendar	−608 – −607
Discordian calendar	842
Ethiopian calendar	−332 – −331
Hebrew calendar	3436–3437
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−268 – −267
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2776–2777
Holocene calendar	9676
Iranian calendar	946 BP – 945 BP
Islamic calendar	975 BH – 974 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2009
Minguo calendar	2236 before ROC 民前2236年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1792
Thai solar calendar	218–219
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) −198 or −579 or −1351     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) −197 or −578 or −1350

Events

By place

Europe

• (around this year) - Pytheas made a voyage of naval exploration to northwestern Europe, reaching Britain and the Baltic Sea, and mentioning Thule as the farthest island to the north in the Atlantic.

Macedonian Empire

• Alexander the Great leaves India and nominates his officer Peithon, son of Agenor, as the satrap of the region around the Indus.
• Alexander the Great orders his admiral, Nearchus, to sail from the Hydaspes River in western India to the Persian Gulf and up the Euphrates River to Babylon while Alexander's army starts marching through Gedrosia (Baluchistan).
• While returning to Persia, Alexander's army runs into the Malli clans (in modern day Multan). The ensuing battle severely weakens his army. Alexander sends much of his remaining army to Carmania (modern southern Iran) with his general Craterus, while he leads the rest of his forces back to Persia by the southern route through the Gedrosian Desert (now part of southern Iran and Makran in southern Pakistan).
• By the end of the year, Alexander's army reaches Persepolis, while his navy, under Nearchus, reaches Susa at around the same time.
• The first known reference to sugar cane appears in writings by Alexander the Great's admiral Nearchus, who writes of Indian reeds "that produce honey, although there are no bees".

Sicily

• Agathocles, a rich and ambitious citizen of Syracuse, is exiled for attempting to overthrow the oligarchic party in the city.

China

• Going against his loyalty to the figurehead monarch of the Zhou Dynasty, the Qin ruler, Duke Huiwen, takes on the title of King Huiwen, claiming royal title and sparking a trend amongst other Warring States rulers to do the same.
• King Wuling ascends to the throne of Zhao.

Americas

• La Venta, an Olmec island city, is believed to be completely abandoned by this time.

By topic

Art

• The fourth-century (Late Classical) period of sculpture ends in Ancient Greece and is succeeded by the Hellenistic period (approximate date).

Philosophy

• Aristotle writes Ta Ethika on virtue and moral character (approximate date).

Births

• Euclid, Greek mathematician who will come to live in Alexandria (d. c. 275 BC)
• Gongsun Long, Chinese scholar and philosopher (approximate date)
• Zhaoxiang of Qin, Chinese king of the Qin State (d. 250 BC)

Deaths

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