397 BC Chr.

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397 BC Chr.
Dionysios I of Syracuse besieges the city of Segesta .
397 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	147/148 (southern Buddhism); 146/147 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	38th (39th) cycle , year of the wood monkey甲申 ( at the beginning of the year water sheep 癸未)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 95th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3364/65
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita CCCLVII (357)

Events

Politics and world events

Sicily

• Dionysius I of Syracuse breaks his treaty with the Carthaginians , which provides for the partition of Sicily , and begins a campaign to conquer the island . Dionysios' siege of the city of Segesta is significant .
• The Carthaginians build the fortress Marsala (Lilybaion) in western Sicily after Dionysius of Syracuse destroyed their base at Mozia .

Roman Republic

• Lucius Iulius Iullus, Lucius Furius Medullinus , Lucius Sergius Fidenas , Aulus Postumius Albinus Regillensis, Publius Cornelius Maluginensis and Aulus Manlius Vulso Capitolinus become Roman consular tribunes .
• According to tradition, the Roman Republic wages wars against the Volsker , Aequer , Vejenter , Falisker and Capenaten . Troops from the city of Tarquinii invade Roman territory .
• Spurius Minucius Augurinus becomes Roman Pontifex Maximus , he held the office until 390 BC. Chr.

science and technology

• In his 7th year (398 to 397 BC) the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II lets the additional month Addaru II switch, which begins on March 18th.
• Babylonian astronomers record the results of their observation of the lunar eclipse of March 31–1. April (14th Addaru II) and in the 8th year of Artaxerxes II. (397 to 396 BC) the observation results of the lunar eclipse from 24-25. September (14th Ululu).
• In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 16th – 17th centuries. April; the full moon in Nisannu on 29-30. April, the 1st ululu on the 11th-12th September and the 1st Tašritu on 10-11. October.

Born

• around 397 BC Chr .: Antipater , Macedonian general and imperial administrator († 319 BC )

Died

• around 397 BC Chr .: Zeuxis of Herakleia , Greek painter and sculptor

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Date in the Gregorian calendar ; In the Julian calendar system , 5 days are to be added to the Gregorian date. The date is based on the NASA information ( Memento from November 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) taking into account the T-Delta. For Babylonia, the time zone surcharge of 3 hours must be taken into account for Universal Time (UT); according to Jean Meeus : Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 - , Barth, Leipzig 2000 for: Ephemeris Tool 4,5 according to Jean Meeus, conversion program, 2001 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Hermann Hunger: Lunar and Planetary Texts (Astronomical Diaries and related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. 5) . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7001-3028-7 , p. 395.