340 BC

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Year of the Metal Snake辛巳( at the beginning of the year Metal Dragon庚辰)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

• June: Battle of the Crimisus (Western Sicily): Victory of Syracuse under Timoleon Carthage.
• An uprising in the Latin towns alliance against Rome triggers the Latinerkrieg. Rome is allied with the Samnites, the Latins with the Sidicinern and the Greek Campania. Rome appoints L. Papirius Crassus dictator and declared the possession of the Latins for confiscated. Victory of the Romans over the Latins at Veseris and Sinuessa.
• Greek colonists found Antipolis ( Antibes ) at Nikaia ( Nice).

Eastern Mediterranean

• Philip II of Macedon wins the island of Thassos. He also besieged both Perinthus and Byzantium.
• The increasingly anti - Macedonian sentiment in Greece, given the assaults of Philip II uses Athens establishing a directed against this Hellenenbundes.
• Rhodes is the Achämenidenherrscher Artaxerxes III. conquered and thus Persian.

Asia

• Pixodaros crashes his sister Ada and satrap in Caria.
• In China wins during the time of the Warring State of Qin over the weakened by previous wars Wei, must give up the vast areas of its territory.

Born

• 340 BC: Appius Claudius Caecus, Roman statesman († 273 BC)
• 340 BC: Euhemerus, Greek writer († 260 BC)
• 340 BC: Hipparchia, philosopher of the Cynic school
• 340 BC: Qu Yuan, Chinese poet († 278 BC)
• 340 BC: Strato of Lampsacus, Greek philosopher († 269 BC)

Died

• Mentor of Rhodes, Greek mercenaries and military leader
• Publius Decius Mus, Roman politician
• 340 BC: The Lais of Hykkara, Greek courtesan, murdered