408 BC Chr.
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| 408 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 136/137 (southern Buddhism); 135/136 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 38th (39th) cycle , year of the water tap癸酉 ( at the beginning of the year water monkey 壬申) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 92nd / 1st year of the 93rd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3353/54 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCCXLVI (346) |
Events
Politics and world events
- After several victories against Sparta in the Peloponnesian War draws Alcibiades triumphantly in Athens and is the strategos selected.
- After the death of the Spartan king Pleistoanax , his son Pausanias becomes king of the house of the Agiads again .
- Hermocrates of Syracuse begins the rebuilding of the walls of Selinunt in Sicily, which were destroyed by Carthage the previous year .
Early Greek temple remains of the Acropolis of Rhodes
- The three poleis Ialysos , Kameiros and Lindos , who have dominated the island of Rhodes in the last few centuries despite constant competition, join forces and establish the future capital of Rhodes in the north of the island . Allegedly, the famous builder Hippodamos of Miletus also participated in the planning of the city, although at this point he was already 90 years old.
science and technology
- In his 16th year of reign (408 to 407 BC), the Achaemenid king Darius II allowed the additional month of Ululu II to be switched on, which began on September 12th.
- In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 20th – 21st. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 2nd – 3rd April and the 1st Tašritu on the 11th-12th October.
Sports
- The Macedonian King Archelaus I wins the Olympic Games in Tethrippon , the race with the team of four .
- The synoris is introduced at the Olympic Games , a race with a team of two.
Born
- Antiphanes , Athenian poet († 332 BC )
Died
- Pleistoanax , Spartan king of the house of the Agiads
Web links
Commons : 408 BC Chr. - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
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 .