343 BC Chr.

343 BC Chr.
Sparta attacks Knossos, an ally of Macedonia .
343 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	201/202 (southern Buddhism); 200/201 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	39th (40th) cycle , year of the earth-tiger 戊寅 ( at the beginning of the year fire-buffalo 丁丑)
Greek calendar	1./2. Year of the 109th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3418/19
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDXI (411)

Events

After the Sidicins were annexed to the Samnites , Rome formed an alliance with Capua . This is the reason for the First Samnite War (343–341 BC ).
Archidamos III. , King of Sparta, follows a call for help from Sparta's daughter colony Taranto , which is threatened by attacks by the Lucanians and Messapians . However, the following campaigns are not very successful.

Conflict over Kardia on the Chersonese . The city is allied with Philip II of Macedonia ; Nevertheless, Athens sends settlers ( clergy ) to Kardia to secure the peninsula, which lies on the grain route to the Black Sea, which is vital for Athens . Philip takes this as an opportunity to intervene; a little later he controls all of Thrace .
The city of Knossos on Crete allies itself with Macedonia; then Sparta sends troops against the city.
In Eretria on Evia, the pro-Macedonian party is gaining the upper hand.

Late 343: Persian troops invade Egypt ; next year they succeed in defeating Nectanebo II , the last Egyptian king from a local dynasty.

In the following three years, 13-year-old Alexander (later called “the great”) lived with the aristocracy's sons, who were friends, with the (then not yet famous) scholar Aristotle . He is taught rhetoric , geography and literature , among other things .

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