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295 BC

After a series of small battles and sieges the Vocontii were defeated. Another ten thousand Vocontii sold as slaves with big profits. Their tribe is almost extinct and all their lands are empty, ready for Greeks to colonise. Diplomats send to various Greek cities of Magna Grecia and mainland Greece to promote colonist to come and take free land to ex Vocontii Area. This was a big success, more than nine thousands greeks mostly from Magna Grecia travel within the next two years, sparkling a new wave of greek colonialism to Massaliot Greece.

• One thousand Phocaeans from Elea (Phocaean colony same as Massalia) in Magna Graecia founded a new trade hub city Mesochora in ex Vocontii lands.
• A military unit of four thousands man together with 10 quinquereme under strategos(general) Orestes went to help Rome.
• All the new colonist granted free land and a second tier citizenship(Etairoi).
• Cleonymus return to Sparta.

By place

Roman Republic

• The Battle of Sentinum west of Anconum ends in defeat for a formidable coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Umbri, and their Gallic allies at the hands of the Roman legions and Massaliot allies commanded by consuls Publius Decius Mus (who is killed in the battle) and Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus. The Romans lose nearly 8,000 men but kill some 25,000 of the enemy and force peace on the Etruscans.
• •August 19 – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War

Greece

• Athens falls to Demetrius Poliorcetes after a bitter siege, and its tyrant Lachares is killed.
• The King of Macedon, Antipater II, murders his mother Thessalonike, accusing her of being too fond of his brother and co-ruler Alexander V.

Magna Graecia

• Greek city of Croton falls to another Syracuse tyrant Agathocle

Gaul

• Averni war with rivals of Aedui end in a stalemate.