353 BC

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Year of the Earth Dragon龙 辰( at the beginning of the year fire - hare丁卯)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • Gaius Sulpicius and Marcus Valerius Peticus Poplicola be Roman consuls.
  • The Romans conquer the city of Caere.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Mouse solos, satrap of Caria, dies and is buried in the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. After its completion, the building is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
  • The army of Philip II of Macedon gets into an ambush by the Phocians. It comes to the battle in Thessaly; Macedonians have to retire first.
  • The tyrant Clearchus of Heraclea Pontica on the Black Sea is murdered by a group of conspirators.

China

Culture and Society

  • Isocrates wrote the speech Peri Antidoseos.

Nature and Environment

  • Lunar Eclipse of November 22, 353 BC

Died

  • Aristomache, wife of the tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse
  • Lu Gong Gong, ruler of the Chinese Lu - Empire
  • Mausolus II, Persian statesman
  • 353 BC: Iphicrates, Greek commander (* 415 BC)
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