389 BC Chr.

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389 BC Chr.
389 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	155/156 (southern Buddhism); 154/155 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	38th (39th) cycle , year of the water dragon壬辰 ( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit 辛卯)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 97th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3372/73
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCLXV (365)

Events

Western Mediterranean

• Lucius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Lucius Verginius Tricostus Esquilinus, Publius Cornelius, Aulus Manlius Capitolinus, Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus and Lucius Postumius Albinus Regillensis became Roman consular tribunes .
• Marcus Furius and Lucius Papirius become Roman censors .
• Battle of Elleporus : Dionysius I of Syracuse attacks the Italiotischen Bund , an association of Greek cities in southern Italy. He succeeds in gaining a victory in Calabria on the Elleporus river and thus expanding his supremacy in Magna Graecia .
• Marcus Furius Camillus is appointed Roman dictator for the third time for several months .

Eastern Mediterranean

• Chabrias replaces Iphicrates as Athens' strategist in the Peloponnese.
• Pharaoh Hakor concludes an alliance agreement with Athens directed against the Persian Achaemenid Empire .
• Leukon I becomes king of the Bosporan Empire .

Born

• 389 or 390 BC Chr .: Aeschines , Greek orator († around 314 BC)

Died

• Aristophanes , Athenian diplomat (* around 425 BC)