378 BC
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Year of the Water Hare癸卯( at the beginning of the year Water Tiger壬寅)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Western Mediterranean
- Spusius Furius Medullinus, Licinus Menenius Lanatus, Marcus Horatius pulvillus, Quintus Servillius Fidenas, Publius and Lucius Cloelius Sicilus Geganius Macerinus be Roman Konsulartribunen.
- Servilius Priscus Spurious and Quintus Cloelius Siculus be Roman censors.
- Dionysius I of Syracuse subdues the Greek colony of Croton in Südkalabrien. The sanctuary of the Greek goddess Hera at Capo Colonna plundered by his troops.
Here was until then the meeting of the Federal Italiote of the Greek cities in southern Italy. New meeting will Heraclea in Lucania.
- In Rome begins after the incident took place a few years before the Celts to build a new city walls, later known as the Servian Wall.
Eastern Mediterranean
- Under the generals Chabrias Athens succeeds near Thebes a victory over Sparta with Agesilaus II
Science and Technology
- In his 26th year of reign ( 379-378 BC ) where the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II the additional month Addaru switch, which starts on March 18.
- Babylonian astronomers record their observation results of the lunar eclipse on April 1 ( 15 Addaru II).
- In the Babylonian calendar the beginning of the first Nisannu falls on the 17th - 18th April; the full moon in Nisannu on 30 April -1. May and the first Tašritu on the 11th - 12th October.
Born
- To 378/377 BC: Theopompus, a Greek historian and rhetorician († 323-300 BC).
Comments
- Year ( 4th century BC)
- 378 BC