396 BC Chr.

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396 BC Chr.

396 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	148/149 (southern Buddhism); 147/148 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	38th (39th) cycle , year of the wood rooster乙酉 ( at the beginning of the year wood monkey 甲申)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 95th / 1st Year of the 96th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3365/66
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCLVIII (358)

Events

Politics and world events

Western Mediterranean

Lucius Titinius Pansa Saccus, Publius Licinius Calvus Esquilinus , Publius Maelius Capittolinus, Quintus Manlius Vulso Capitolinus , Gnaeus Genucius Augurinus and Lucius Atilius Priscus become Roman consular tribunes .

Location of the cities of Rome and Veji

Marcus Furius Camillus is appointed Roman dictator for six months . In this position he succeeds in conquering the Etruscan trading city Veji (20 km north of Rome) after a ten-year war . Veji's citizens are enslaved; Camillus enters the city in triumph.
The Carthaginians end the siege of the Sicilian city of Syracuse , but conquer and sack Messina .
Mago II succeeds Himilko on the throne of Carthage. After Himilko's death, the city's council of elders gained increasing influence.

Eastern Mediterranean

Agesilaus II , King of Sparta , moves with an army to Asia Minor to support the Spartan troops in the Spartan-Persian war . His army first moved to Phrygia and Bithynia .
Konon , the general of Athens , which had previously been defeated by Sparta , made contact with the Persian governor in Phrygia and Bithynia. He appointed Konon admiral of a new Attic-Persian fleet of 500 ships with which he recaptured Rhodes from the Spartans in the same year .
Orestes , the young king of Macedonia , is murdered by his regent Aeropos II . From now on he rules as "Archelaos II" alone.

science and technology

In the 9th year of the Achaemenid King Artaxerxes II, Babylonian astronomers record their observation results of the lunar eclipse of 18./19. September 396 BC BC (13th ululu).

In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 6-7. April, the full moon in Nisannu on the 19th – 20th April, the 1st Ululu on the 1st – 2nd September and the 1st Tašritu on September 30th – 1st October.

Sports

Kyniska wins the chariot races of the Olympic Games with a four-team foal.

Born

Xenocrates , Greek philosopher († 314 BC )
around 396 BC Chr .: Dionysius II of Syracuse , tyrant of Syracuse († 337 BC )

Died

Orestes , king of Macedon

Web links

Commons : 396 BC Chr. - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b 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.
↑ ^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 .

[H-1] A ^b 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-2] 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 .