378 BC Chr.

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378 BC Chr.
Construction of a new city wall begins in Rome .
378 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	166/167 (southern Buddhism); 165/166 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	38th (39th) cycle , year of the water hare癸卯 ( at the beginning of the year water tiger 壬寅)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 100th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3383/84
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCLXXVI (376)

Events

Politics and world events

Greece

• Under the general Chabrias , Athens near Thebes wins a victory over Sparta under Agesilaus II.

Greek colonies

• Dionysios I of Syracuse subjugates the Greek settlement of Croton in southern Calabria . The sanctuary of the Greek goddess Hera on Capo Colonna is sacked by his troops. Until then, this was the meeting place of the Italiotischen Bund of Greek cities in southern Italy. Herakleia in Lucania will be the new meeting place .

Roman Republic

^{see main article Roman Republic}

• Spusius Furius Medullinus, Licinus Menenius Lanatus, Marcus Horatius Pulvillus , Quintus Servillius Fidenas, Publius Cloelius Sicilus and Lucius Geganius Macerinus became Roman consular tribunes .
• Spurius Servilius Priscus and Quintus Cloelius Siculus became Roman censors .

Remains of the Servian Wall

• In Rome, after the invasion of the Celts a few years earlier, the construction of a new city wall, later known as the Servian Wall, begins .

science and technology

• In his 26th year of reign (379 to 378 BC), the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II allowed the additional month of Addaru II , which began on March 18th.
• Babylonian astronomers record their observation results of the lunar eclipse on April 1st (15th Addaru II).
• In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 17th – 18th centuries. April; the full moon in Nisannu on April 30–1. May and the 1st Tašritu on the 11th-12th October.

Born

• around 378/377 BC Chr .: Theopompos , Greek historian and rhetorician († between 323 and 300 BC).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 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. ^ 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.