404 BC Chr.

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404 BC Chr.
The Peloponnesian War ends with the surrender of Athens .
404 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	140/141 (southern Buddhism); 139/140 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	38th (39th) cycle , year of the Fire Ox丁丑 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Rat 丙子)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 93rd / 1st year of the 94th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3357/58
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCL (350)

Events

Politics and world events

Persian Empire

• After the death of the Persian great king Dareios II , his son Artaxerxes II becomes ruler of the Achaemenid Empire .

Greece

• The starved Athens surrenders to the Spartan Admiral Lysander in the Peloponnesian War . Sparta becomes the Greek hegemonic power .
• August: The eight month rule of the thirty begins in Athens .

science and technology

• The first year of reign (404 to 403 BC) of the Achaemenid King Artaxerxes II begins on Nisannu 1 .
• In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the year of the 1st Nisannu falls on the 4th – 5th. April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 18th – 19th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 28-29. September.

Solar eclipse on September 3, 404 BC Chr.

• September 3 : Solar eclipse of Ennius

Born

• 404 / v 403rd BC : Ariarathes I , ruler of Cappadocia († 322 BC )

Died

• Alkibiades , Athenian politician and general
• Dareios II , Persian great king
• Eukrates , Athenian general
• Hippias of Thasos , Athenian citizen and victim of the rule of thirty
• Nikeratos , Athenian citizen and victim of the rule of thirty
• Strombichides , Athenian politician and admiral
• Theramenes , Athenian politician and victim of the rule of thirty
• Xenophon of Ikaria , victim of the rule of the thirty

Web links

Commons : 404 BC Chr.  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 NASA information ( Memento from November 8, 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 .