338 BC Chr.

338 BC Chr.
After the lost battle of Chaironeia , the Corinthian League is concluded.
338 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	206/207 (southern Buddhism); 205/206 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	39th (40th) cycle , year of the water sheep癸未 ( at the beginning of the year water horse 壬午)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 110th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3423/24
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDXVI (416)

Events

Battle of Chaironeia

August 2nd : Philip II , King of Macedonia , with his army defeated the troops of Athens and Thebes in the battle of Chaironeia , thus sealing the hegemony of Macedonia over Greece . The Greeks who were finally defeated in the Macedonian Wars are treated very gently. The defeated Athens is allowed to keep its democratic constitution. However, Thebes is subjected to a punishable offense that results in a Macedonian occupation.
Winter 338/337: Philip calls a Panhellenic congress in Corinth . There the Corinthian Covenant is made .
The Aetolians win Nafpaktus . Ambrakia surrenders to the Macedonians.
Archidamos III. , King of Sparta , falls in southern Italy near Manduria when he supports Sparta's daughter colony Taranto against Lucanians and Messapians. His successor in Sparta is Agis III.

The eunuch and court minister from Egypt Bagoas poisoned the Persian great king Artaxerxes III. , presumably because this after the conquest of Egypt the sacred and several of his sons Apis bull of Memphis has let kill. Then he has the corpse of the great king thrown to the animals to eat. The youngest son Arses , spared by Bagoas, succeeds his father in the Achaemenid Empire as the minister’s puppet .

The Romans, under the command of Manlius Imperiosus, defeat the Latins , Volscians and Auruncians in the Battle of Trifanum . The Roman general Furius triumphs over Pedum and Tribur, while Manlius triumphs over Antium, Lavinium and Velitrae. The decisive factor is the victory over the Volscians in a sea battle off the Latin coast. The Romans display the beaks of the six captured ships on the Rostra .
The Romans emerge victorious from the Latin War and subjugate the Latin League of Cities . Aricia, Lanuvium , Nomentum, Pedum and Rusculum were given citizenship, Capua, Cumae, Formiae, Fundi and Suessula were given civil law equality with Rome.

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Statue of Shang Yang ( Chinese 商鞅 )

Warring States Period : Huiwen succeeds Xiao in Qin State . To secure his sole rule, Huiwen has the minister Shang Yang executed, who has made Qin the most powerful Chinese state with his reforms .

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