379 BC Chr.

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379 BC Chr.
Pharaoh Nektanebo I issued a decree on the Naukratis stele in favor of the Sais temple of the goddess Neith .
379 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	165/166 (southern Buddhism); 164/165 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	38th (39th) cycle , year of the water tiger壬寅 ( at the beginning of the year metal buffalo 辛丑)
Greek calendar	1./2. Year of the 100th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3382/83
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCLXXV (375)

Events

Politics and world events

Egypt

June / July: Nepherites II succeeds his father Hakor to the Egyptian throne.

Depiction of the goddess Neith

September / October: The Egyptian general Nektanebos overthrows Pharaoh Nepherites II and kills him. With this, Nectanebo I established the 30th dynasty . In Naukratis he issues a decree in favor of the Sais temple of the goddess Neith , who is venerated by him as the mistress of the sea . She is thus favored by taxes, which is carved on a stele , the Naukratis stele .

Greece

The Theban general Pelopidas returns from exile and, with the help of Athens, forces the Spartans to withdraw from the Kadmeia , the city's citadel. The oligarchical constitution is also being replaced in favor of the democratic one. The Boeotian League under the leadership of Thebes is renewed.
Olynth needs in First Olynthian war capitulate after several months of siege against Sparta. The Federation of Chalcidian Cities is dissolved. A large part of the region falls under the domination of Macedonia again .

Roman Republic

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Publius Manlius Capitolinus, Lucius Iulius Iullus, Marcus Albinius, Publius Trebonius, Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, Gaius Sextilius, Lucius Antistius and Gaius Erenucius become Roman consular tribunes .
Tusculum receives Roman citizenship.

science and technology

In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on 29-30. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 11th – 12th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 23rd-24th September.

In the 26th year of the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II. (379 to 378 BC), Babylonian astronomers calculate the dates for the lunar eclipse from 5th to 6th centuries. October (13th Tašritu).

Died

Nepherites II , ancient Egyptian pharaoh

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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 .
^ 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.

[J-1] 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.