364 BC

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Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • Gaius Sulpicius and Gaius Licinius Peticus stolon are Roman Consuls.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • The Theban commander Pelopidas defeated Alexander of Pherae in the Battle of the Cynoscephalae. However, he himself is killed in action.
  • Athens conquered the Macedonian port city of Pydna.
  • The insurgent Persian satrap Ariobarzanes gained the support of a Spartan mercenary army under King Agesilaus II
  • With the help of his newly built fleet succeeds Epaminondas of Thebes, the islands of Chios and Rhodes, as well as the city of Byzantion to revolt from Athens to cause.
  • The city of Orchomenus is destroyed by the Boeotian federation.

Sports

  • During the pentathlon at Olympia there is an armed robbery eliatischer troops.

Died

  • Pelopidas, the Greek military leader (c. 410 BC)
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