347 BC Chr.

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347 BC Chr.
347 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	197/198 (southern Buddhism); 196/197 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	39th (40th) cycle , year of the wood dog 甲戌 ( at the beginning of the year water tap 癸酉)
Greek calendar	1./2. Year of the 108th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3414/15
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDVII (407)

Events

Politics and world events

• Roman consuls are C. Plautius Venno and T. Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus .
• Athens sends an embassy under Aeschines to Philip II of Macedonia to negotiate a peace.
• In Syracuse , the exiled tyrant Dionysius II succeeds in returning and regaining power.

science and technology

• Speusippus , a nephew of Plato , becomes head (scholarch) of the older academy in Athens after his death until the end of his life .
• Aristotle left the Platonic Academy after Plato's death and moved to Hermias in Atarneus for two years in Asia Minor .

Died

• Apollokrates , politician from Syracuse (* around 375 BC )
• Hagnodoros , Attic citizen (* 428 or 427 BC)
• or 355 BC Chr .: Eudoxos of Knidos , Greek scholar (* 410 or 408 BC)
• or 348 BC Chr .: Plato , Greek philosopher (* approx. 427 BC )