391 BC

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Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • Lucius Lucretius Tricipitinus flavus, Servius Sulpicius Came Rinus, Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus, Lucius Furius Medullinus, Agrippa Furius Fusus and Gaius Aemilius Mamercinus be Roman Konsulartribunen.
  • According to tradition, the ancient Roman dictator Marcus Furius Camillus, who is also regarded as the " second founder of Rome ," banished to Ardea for embezzlement.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Sparta and Athens negotiate the termination of the Corinthian War. The Attic orators Andokides calls for the adoption of the agreed Common Peace ( Eirene koine ). This would mean not only a cessation of hostilities, but bring a lasting, which relate to all Greek cities of peace based on the sovereignty of all the city-states. The negotiated agreement will be rejected.
  • The Attic relief force reached Corinth, the port city Lechaion was conquered by the Spartans. As a Spartan commander leads his regiment of 600 hoplites by the Corinthia, the Athenian commander Iphicrates seizes the opportunity and picks the Spartans with his peltasts. The only protected by light shields units have no trouble always to keep the heavy hoplites at a distance and inflict them with their spears losses. As the Spartans finally reach Lechaion, 250 soldiers died ( Battle of Lechaion ).
  • Iphicrates manage to conquer several points of the Spartans in the room Corinth. Only the port city Lechaion remains in enemy hands. This ends the fighting in this region.
  • An army from Argos reached Corinth. The two city-states decide on the union of their dominions.
  • Tiribazus is issued as a Persian satrap of Lydia because of its prospartanischen attitude. In its place the athens friendly Struthas occurs.
  • Hakor is Egyptian Pharaoh to succeed Psammuthis.

Died

  • Thibron, Spartan commander
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