344 BC

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Year of the Fire Ox丁丑(at the beginning of Fire Rat丙子)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

• Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse, is overthrown by the Corinthian Timoleon.

Eastern Mediterranean

• According to one anecdote tames the 12 -year-old Macedonians Prince Alexander (later the Great) the horse Bucephalus.
• The Persian king Artaxerxes III. throws down the revolt in Cyprus.
• After the death of Idrieus him follows his sister and wife Ada to the throne of Caria.

Science and Technology

• Aristotle keeps himself to Lesbos and studied the nature there.

Died

• Idrieus, Carian King

• Year ( 4th century BC)
• 344 BC