407 BC

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Year of the Wood Dog甲戌( at the beginning of the year Water Faucet癸酉)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Meet North of Ephesus at Notion the fleets of Sparta and Athens under Lysander under Antiochus each other. After the crushing defeat at the Battle of Notion Alcibiades loses the command of the Athenian fleet in the Peloponnesian War.
  • The exiled Hermokrates Syracuse tries to capture by surprise, but it killed in street fighting.

Science and Technology

  • In the Babylonian calendar the beginning of the first Nisannu falls on the 8th - 9th April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 21th - 22nd April and the first Tašritu to the 2nd - 3rd October ..
  • Babylonian astronomers record in the 17th year of the reign of the Achaemenid king Darius II ( 407-406 BC), their observation results of the lunar eclipse on the 15th - 16th October ( 14 Tašritu ).

Died

  • Dorieus of Rhodes, a Greek athlete and Olympic athlete
  • Hermokrates, syrakusanischer statesman and general

Comments

  • Year ( 5th century BC)
  • 407 BC

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