350 BC

Year 350 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laenas and Scipio (or, less frequently, year 404 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 350 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC
Years:	353 BC 352 BC 351 BC 350 BC 349 BC 348 BC 347 BC

350 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	350 BC CCCXLIX BC
Ab urbe condita	404
Ancient Egypt era	XXX dynasty, 31
- Pharaoh	Nectanebo II, 11
Ancient Greek era	107th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4401
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−942
Berber calendar	601
Buddhist calendar	195
Burmese calendar	−987
Byzantine calendar	5159–5160
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2347 or 2287     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2348 or 2288
Coptic calendar	−633 – −632
Discordian calendar	817
Ethiopian calendar	−357 – −356
Hebrew calendar	3411–3412
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−293 – −292
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2751–2752
Holocene calendar	9651
Iranian calendar	971 BP – 970 BP
Islamic calendar	1001 BH – 1000 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1984
Minguo calendar	2261 before ROC 民前2261年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1817
Thai solar calendar	193–194
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) −223 or −604 or −1376     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) −222 or −603 or −1375

Events

Persian Empire

• Sidon, the centre of the revolt against Persia, seeks help from its sister city of Tyre and from Egypt but gets very little.
• Idrieus, the second son of Hecatomnus, succeeds to the throne of Caria on the death of Artemisia II, the widow of his elder brother Mausolus. Shortly after his accession, at the request of the Persian king, Artaxerxes III, Idrieus equips a fleet of 40 triremes and assembles an army of 8,000 mercenary troops and despatches them against Cyprus, under the command of the Athenian general Phocion.

Greece

• Alexander I becomes king of Epirus after his brother-in-law, Philip II of Macedon, aids him in ousting the previous king, Arymbas.
• Philip II has Abdera in Thrace sacked.

Roman Republic

• The Gauls, once more threatening Rome, are decisively beaten by an army comprising Rome and its allies.

Science

• Aristotle argues for a spherical Earth using lunar eclipses and other observations. Also he discusses logical reasoning in Organon.
• Plato proposes a geocentric model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere.

Art

• Praxiteles makes the Aphrodite of Knidos (approximate date). A composite of two similar Roman copies after the original marble is now kept at Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Gabinetto delle Maschere in Rome.
• The building of the Mausoleum in Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum in Turkey) is completed (approximate date). It is the grave of the Persian satrap and Carian ruler Mausolos and is built under the direction of his wife Artemisia. The mausoleum, which is considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is today partly preserved at the British Museum in London.
• The Corinthian capital is made in the tholos at Epidaurus. It is now preserved at the Archaeological Museum in Epidaurus, Greece (approximate date).

Births

• Dicaearchus, Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and polygraph (d. c. 285 BC)
• Megasthenes, Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer (approximate date)
• Shen Dao, Chinese philosopher known for his blend of Legalism and Taoism (approximate date) (d. c. 275 BC)

Deaths

• Artemisia II, queen of Caria and sister and wife of king Mausolus of Caria
• Tollund Man, human sacrifice victim on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of the Norse god Odin (approximate date)

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