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| 406 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 138/139 (southern Buddhism); 137/138 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 38th (39th) cycle , year of the wood-pig乙亥 ( at the beginning of the year wood-dog 甲戌) |
| Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 93rd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3355/56 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCCXLVIII (348) |
Events
Politics and world events
In a sea battle at the entrance to the port of Mytilene in the Peloponnesian War , the Athenians lose 30 of their 70 ships and are now besieged there by the Spartan fleet. In order to bring reinforcements from Athens, it is decided that two ships should break through the Spartan siege barrier in front of the port of Mytilene and try to get to Athens. The general Konon is supposed to stay in Mytilene, while his colleagues Erasinides and Leon are supposed to try with one ship each to escape in different directions (out to sea and towards Hellespont). One must assume that Leon commands the one of the two ships that is fleeing towards the open sea. While his colleague Erasinides manages to escape in the direction of Hellespont, Leon's ship is caught by the Spartans after a chase, defeated in battle and dragged back.
The Battle of the Arginus between Athens and Sparta is the greatest sea battle the Greeks have ever fought . In this battle, Athens wins an overwhelming victory over the Spartan fleet under Kallikratidas , who falls in the battle. Since the admirals are unable to rescue seamen from sunken ships or at least to rescue the corpses due to a storm, six of them are brought to justice by the angry and incited people's assembly and executed at the instigation of Theramenes . Among them are Pericles the Younger , a son of the famous statesman Pericles , Aristocrates , Erasinides , Diomedon , Lysias and Thrasyllos . The philosopher Socrates is among the judges on this day and is the only one to withstand the pressure of the angry crowd and refuses to approve the condemnation of the admirals and thus their execution.
science and technology
- In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 28th – 29th. March; the full moon in Nisannu on 10-11. April and the 1st Tašritu on the 20th – 21st September.
- In the 18th year of the reign of the Achaemenid King Dareios II (406 to 405 BC), Babylonian astronomers record their observation results of the lunar eclipse of the 4th – 5th October (15th Tašritu).
Culture
- Shortly before his death, the Greek playwright Euripides wrote The Bacchae as the third part of a tetralogy .
Died
- Aristocrates , Athenian politician, general and admiral
- Erasinides , Athenian general and admiral
- Euripides , Greek poet
- Kallikratidas , Spartan admiral
- Leon , Athenian politician, general and admiral
- Lysias , Athenian admiral
- Pericles the Younger , Athenian politician, general and admiral
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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 .