355 BC

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Year of The Fire Tiger丙寅( at the beginning of the year Wood Buffalo乙丑)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

• Gaius Sulpicius and Marcus Valerius Peticus Poplicola be Roman consuls.

Eastern Mediterranean

• Under pressure from the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the second Athenian Confederacy should be dissolved. This is the end of the Social War, which had 357 BC began with the secession of several members of the League.

• Philip II of Macedon besieged the city of Methoni. An arrow he loses an eye.

Culture and Society

• Isocrates wrote the speech Areopagiticus, in which he calls Athens to restore the constitution of Solon.

Born

• 355 BC: Demochares, Greek orator and statesman († 275 BC)
• 355 BC: Ophelias, Macedonian officer († 308 BC)
• 355 BC: Peithon, Macedonian bodyguard († 316 BC)

Died

• 355 BC: Aristippus of Cyrene, Greek philosopher (c. 435 BC)
• Or 347 BC: Eudoxus of Cnidus, a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer and doctor (* 410/408 BC)