389 BC

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Year of the Water Dragon壬辰( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit辛卯)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

• Lucius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Lucius Verginius Tricostus Esquiline, Publius Cornelius, Aulus Manlius Capitolinus, Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus and Lucius Postumius Albinus Regillensis be Roman Konsulartribunen.
• Marcus and Lucius Furius Papirius be Roman censors.
• Battle of the Elleporus: Dionysius I of Syracuse attacks the Italiote Federation, an association of Greek cities in southern Italy, on. He succeeds, the river Elleporus to win in Calabria a victory and so extend its hegemony in Magna Graecia.
• Marcus Furius Camillus is appointed for the third time for several months to the Roman dictator.

Eastern Mediterranean

• Chabrias replaced Iphicrates as a strategist Athens to the Peloponnese.
• Pharaoh Hakor concludes with Athens an antibody directed against the Persian Achaemenid Empire treaty of alliance.
• Leukon I. becomes King of the Bosporan kingdom.

Born

• 389 or 390 BC: Aeschines, Greek orator († 314 BC)

Died

• Aristophanes, Athenian diplomat (c. 425 BC)

• Year ( 4th century BC)
• 389 BC