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Year of the Earth Hare己卯( at the beginning of the year Earth Tiger戊寅)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Thrace campaign of the Macedonian king Philip II, the Thracian king Kersebleptes is subjected to the Macedonian dominion extended to the Balkan Mountains and the city of Philippopolis ( Plovdiv ) built.
  • The Macedonians under Antipater and Parmenion devastate the Sporades and land on Euboea, where they put garrisons in Oreos and Eretria after Athens had tried to sell promakedonische rulers. Demosthenes denounces this as a breach of the peace of Philocrates.
  • Aristotle is teacher of Alexander the Great.
  • The Persians under Artaxerxes III. complete the conquest begun last year in Egypt, the Persian province will again. Nectanebo II fled to Nubia.

Western Mediterranean

  • Marcus Valerius Corvus The Romans appointed a dictator in the First Samnitenkrieg.
  • Victory of the Romans over the Samnites at Saticula (east of Capua ) and on the mountain Gaurus ( at Cumae ).
  • The additional gear Genuciae be adopted.

Imperial China

  • The State of Wei wins the Battle of Maling during the time of the Warring States in China over the states Qi and Han.

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