359 BC

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Year of The Water Dog壬戌( at the beginning of the year metal cock辛酉)

Events

  • Marcus and Gnaeus Manlius Popillius Laenas Capitolinus imperiosus be Roman consuls.
  • Artaxerxes III. follows his father to the throne of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
  • The Macedonian king Perdiccas III. coincides with 4,000 soldiers in a battle against the Illyrians under their king Bardylis. His three- year-old son Amyntas IV succeeds him; his brother Philip II appointed regent. Due to the military defeat of the Macedonian state is on the verge of collapse.
  • (or 358 BC): Evagoras II, after the death of his father Nicocles king of Salamis in Cyprus.

Died

  • Han Ai, Margrave of the Chinese Han Empire
  • Perdiccas III. , King of Macedonia
  • 359 or 358 BC: Artaxerxes II, Great King of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (c. 430 BC)
  • (or 358 BC): Nicocles, king of Salamis
  • 359 or 358 BC: Agesilaus II, King of Sparta (c. 443 BC)
  • Year ( 4th century BC)
  • 359 BC
April 2014 List of centuries 2nd century BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 340s BC 320s BC 369 BC 363 BC 355 BC 349 BC Philip II of Macedon Amyntas IV of Macedon Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Perdiccas III of Macedon Bardyllis Nicocles (Salamis) Salamis, Cyprus History of Cyprus
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