288 BC

Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC

Decades: 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC - 280s BC - 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC

293 BC 292 BC 291 BC 290 BC 289 BC 288 BC 287 BC 286 BC 285 BC 284 BC 283 BC

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Events

• Planting of the Sri Maha Bodhi Sacred Fig tree at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, the earliest known planting date for any planted tree still surviving.
• King Demetrius I of Macedon flees Macedonia after an attack by Pyrrhus of Epirus.
• Lysimachus and Pyrrhus partition Macedonia.
• Aristarchus is the first to say that the sun is the center of universe (see heliocentric theory)

Births

Deaths

• Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse