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| 405 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 139/140 (southern Buddhism); 138/139 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 38th (39th) cycle , year of the fire-rat丙子 ( at the beginning of the year wood-pig 乙亥) |
| Greek calendar | 3rd / 4th Year of the 93rd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3356/57 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCCIL (349) |
Events
Politics and world events
- Athens , which condemned and executed its best strategists last year, suffers a crushing defeat against Sparta under Lysander in the battle of Aigospotamoi in the Hellespont . The Peloponnesian War is practically decided.
- Dionysius I becomes tyrant of Syracuse .
science and technology
- In his 18th year of reign (406 to 405 BC), the Achaemenid King Darius II allowed the additional month of Addaru II to be switched on, which began on March 16.
- In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 15th – 16th. April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 28th-29th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 9th – 10th October.
Culture
- With his last play Die Bakchen , Euripides posthumously wins first prize in the tragedy competitions in Athens.
- around 405 BC Chr .: The comedy The Frogs by Aristophanes is premiered.
Died
Remarks
- ↑ 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 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 .