350 BC Chr.

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350 BC Chr.
Around 350 BC Chr. , A new in today's Denmark vessel type, the Hjortspring built.
350 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	194/195 (southern Buddhism); 193/194 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	39th (40th) cycle , Year of the metal sheep辛未 ( at the beginning of the year metal horse 庚午)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 107th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3411/12
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDIV (404)

Events

Politics and world events

Western Mediterranean

• Marcus Popillius Laenas and Lucius Cornelius Scipio become Roman consuls .
• In Syracuse enters Nysaios to power, while Dionysius II. Still dwells in exile.
• Celtiberians found the place Arcobriga .

Macedonia

Macedonian phalanx

• Philip II developed the hoplite phalanx into the Macedonian phalanx made of professional soldiers.
• The Macedonians undertake a short campaign to Epirus and set Alexander I as king.
• Macedonia begins the Second Olynthian War against the Chalcidian League under the leadership of Olynth .

Persian Empire / Egypt

Statue head of Nectanebo II (Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon)

• The Persian Achaemenid Empire under Artaxerxes III. begins another war against Egypt . A first attack can be repulsed by Pharaoh Nectanebo II .

Arabian Peninsula

• around 350 BC Chr .: Shahr 'Alhan rules in the old South Arabian kingdom of Hadramaut .

economy

• around 350 BC BC: The city of Carthage blocks the Strait of Gibraltar with its sea power . From now on, only Punic ships from the Mediterranean area to the Atlantic and back are allowed to bring valuable tin from Britain with them to the Azores and Madeira .

science and technology

• around 350 BC Chr .: Danish carpenters build a new type of seaworthy and fast type of ship: the so-called Hjortspringboot . Such light, 19-meter-long paddle boats made of thin planks offer space for around 25 men.
• around 350 BC Chr .: In China Shi Shen creates a star catalog with around 800 entries.

Born

• around 350 BC Chr .: Diodoros Kronos , Greek philosopher
• around 350 BC Chr .: Cassander , King of Macedonia († 297 BC )
• around 350 BC Chr .: Megasthenes , Greek diplomat, historian and geographer († around 290 BC )

Died

• around 350 BC Chr .: Archytas of Tarent , Pythagorean philosopher and mathematician (* around 430 BC )
• around 350 BC Chr .: Artemisia II. , Sister and wife of Mausolos II.
• around 350 BC Chr .: Pamphilos , Greek painter (* around 390 BC )
• around 350 BC Chr .: the " Tollund man ", Germanic bog corpse (* around 390 BC )

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