321 BC

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	350s BC 340s BC 330s BC – 320s BC – 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC
Years:	324 BC 323 BC 322 BC – 321 BC – 320 BC 319 BC 318 BC

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Year 321 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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Antipater makes Antigonus commander in chief of his army in Asia Minor. He sends him with Craterus to fight against Eumenes, the satrap of Cappadocia and a supporter of Perdiccas.
Perdiccas marches against Ptolemy. When he fails to cross the Nile he is murdered by mutinous officers. Ptolemy is in power in Egypt and Seleucus in power in Babylon.
The main generals of the late Alexander the Great agree to the Partition of Triparadisus.
Ptolemy strengthens his position by marrying Eurydice, the third daughter of Antipater.
Antigonus and Craterus defeat Eumenes in battle. Eumenes escapes.

Successes by Rome's armies force the Samnites to ask for peace. The terms are harsh so peace does not happen.
Two Roman consuls, Spurius Postumius Albinus and Titus Veturius Calvinus, leading a force into Samnium. They are trapped in a mountain pass known as the Caudine Forks. They make a five year treaty with the Samnites.

Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan empire, makes himself king of Magadha.

Craterus, Macedonian general (b. c. 370 BC)
Perdiccas, Macedonian general and regent after the death of Alexander the Great (b. c. 365 BC)
Zhou Xian Wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China

321 BC by topic
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