400 BC Chr.

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400 BC Chr.
The train of ten thousand reaches the Black Sea.
400 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	144/145 (southern Buddhism); 143/144 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	38th (39th) cycle , year of the metal snake辛巳 ( at the beginning of the year metal dragon 庚辰)
Greek calendar	4th year of 94/1 Year of the 95th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3361/62
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCLIV (354)

The eastern hemisphere around 400 BC Chr.

Events

Politics and world events

Western Europe

• Publius Licinius Calvus Esquilinus , Publius Manlius Vulso , Lucius Titinius Pansa Saccus, Publius Maelius Capitolinus, Spurius Furius Medullinus and Lucius Publilius Philo Vulscus become Roman consular tribunes .
• Celtic tribes settle the Altkönig in the Taunus and build ring walls.
• The area around what is now Milan is populated by the Celtic insubres .
• Dionysius I of Syracuse founds the settlement of Adranon in Sicily on the western slope of Mount Etna.

Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia

• After the death of Agis II , his son Leotychidas succeeds him as King of Sparta , whose legitimacy is, however, controversial. Agis initially rejected and rejected Leotychidas as the son of Alcibiades , who was said to have had an affair with Agis's wife during his stay, but recognized him as his son and heir shortly before his death.
• The city of Nymphaion comes from Athens to the Bosporan Empire .
• After a hard march back from Babylon , the train of the ten thousand (a Greek mercenary army) finally reached the coast of the Black Sea.

«Θάλαττα, ϑάλαττα»

«Thálatta! Thálatta! »

"Ocean! Ocean!"

- Xenophon : anabasis

Africa

• around 400 BC Chr .: Meroe becomes the capital of the kingdom of Kush .

America

• around 400 BC BC: The Maya are at the transition from the middle pre-classical to the late pre-classical.
• around 400 BC BC: The last Olmec centers in Mesoamerica are destroyed.

economy

Plan of the agora in the 5th century BC Chr.

• The mint is erected on the Agora in Athens , which is presumably generally used as a state bronze smith.

science and technology

SF June 21, 400 BC Chr.

• June 21st : Solar eclipse of Ennius

Born

• around 400 BC Chr .: Archidamos III. , King of Sparta († 338 BC )
• around 400 BC Chr .: Arete of Cyrene , first known philosopher († around 330 BC )
• around 400 BC Chr .: Ephoros von Kyme , Greek historian († around 330 BC )
• around 400 BC Chr .: Hiketas of Syracuse , Greek philosopher and astronomer († around 335 BC )
• around 400 BC Chr .: Kidinnu , Chaldean astronomer and mathematician († probably 330 BC )
• around 400 BC Chr .: Parmenion , Macedonian general under Philip II and Alexander the Great († 330 BC )

Died

• Agis II , King of Sparta
• Cheirisophos , Spartan military leader (* around 435 BC )
• around 400 BC Chr .: Agathon of Athens , Greek tragedy poet (* around 448 BC )

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