380 BC
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Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Western Mediterranean
- Lucius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Servius Cornelius Maluginensis, Gaius Sulpicius Peticus, Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas Coxo, Lucius Papirius Mugillanus, Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Licinius Menenius Lanatus, Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus and Tiberius Papirius Crassus be Roman Konsulartribunen.
- Spurius Postumius Albinus and Gaius Sulpicius Regillensis Came Rinus be Roman censors.
Eastern Mediterranean
- Cleombrotus I. follows Agesipolis I. on the Spartan throne.
Science and Technology
- In his 24th year of reign ( 381-380 BC ) where the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II the additional month Addaru switch, which starts on 10 March.
- In the Babylonian calendar the beginning of the first Nisannu falls on the 9th - 10th April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 21th - 22nd April and the first Tašritu to the 2nd - 3rd October.
Culture and Society
- Isocrates published after 10 - to 15 - years of work, the panegyric speech setting out the need for a common struggle of all Greeks under leadership of Athens against the Persians.
- ( to ): La Tène period: early La Tène A is replaced by early La Tène B.
Born
- 380 BC: . Darius III, the Persian ruler of the Achaemenid Empire († 330 BC)
- 380 BC: Demades, Greek statesman and orator ( † about 318 BC)
- 380 BC: Mnesitheos of Athens, Greek physician
- 380 BC: Pytheas, Greek explorer ( † about 310 BC)
- 380 BC: Theomnestes, Greek lawyer
Died
- 396/380 BC: Gorgias, Greek philosopher (c. 490/485 BC)
- Lysias, Greek orator (c. 445 BC)
- Philoxenos of Kythira, Greek poet (c. 435 BC)
- 380 BC: Aristophanes, Greek playwright (* 450/444 BC)