396 BC
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Centuries: 5th century BCE - 4th century BCE - 3rd century BCE
Decades: 440s BCE 430s BCE 420s BCE 410s BCE 400s BCE - 390s BCE - 380s BCE 370s BCE 360s BCE 350s BCE 340s BCE
Years: 401 BCE 400 BCE 399 BCE 398 BCE 397 BCE - 396 BCE - 395 BCE 394 BCE 393 BCE 392 BCE 391 BCE
Events
- Rome captures and sacks the Etruscan city of Veii after a 10-year siege
- Carthaginians are forced to abandon their siege of Syracuse (begun in 398 BCE), but destroy Messina.
- Plato publishes his Apologia, which is a defense of his mentor Socrates
- Agesilaus II, king of Sparta, leads an expedition to Asia to secure Greek cities against a Persian attack
- Kyniska, the daughter Archidamus II, becomes the first woman to win an event at the Olympic Games when the horse-drawn chariot she sponsors crosses the finish line first, even though the prohibition on women competing forces her to hire a man to drive it.
Births
- Xenocrates, Greek philosopher and rector of the Academy
Deaths
de:396 v. Chr. es:396 adC eo:-396 fr:-396 it:396 AC ko:396년 hr:396 p.n.e. lb:-396 nl:396 v. Chr. pl:396 p.n.e. pt:396 a.C. sl:396 pr. n. št. sr:396. пне. uk:396 до Р.Х.