Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 400 B.C. through 351 B.C.
- -400 to -351
- Retreat of the Ten Thousand under Xenophon: Greek army successfully
withdrawn after defeat at Cunaxa -400
- Carthaginians occupy Malta -400
- End of Indian civilization in Mexico
- Etruscan city of Veii captured by Romans after 10-year siege -396
- Coalition of Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos against Sparta -395
- Spartan general Agesilaus defeats allied troops at Coronea -394
- Gauls from northern Italy under Brennus capture Rome, sack it,
and withdraw ("Vae victis") -390
- Peace of Antalcidas: Greek cities in Asia Minor surrender to
Artaxerxes II
- M. Manlius Capitolinus, accused of royal ambitions, is thrown
from the Tarpeian rock -384
- The 30th dynasty in Egypt (-380 to -343), last native house to
rule the country
- Massacre of the Spartan tyrants at Thebes by Pelopidas and
Epaminodas -379
- Battle of Leuctra: Thebans under Epaminondas defeat Sparta -371
- The first plebeian elected to office of consul in Rome -366
- Marcus Furius Camillus, Roman general and dictator, d. -365
- Epaminondas, Theban general, killed in the Battle of Mantinea -362
- Cappadocia becomes a kingdom under Ariarathes I -360
- Philip II of Macedon (-352 to -336)
- Accession of Artaxerxes III in Persia -359
- Alexander the Great, son of Philip II of Macedon, b. -356 (d. 323)
- Building of the first wall in China, against the Huns c. -356
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