The 4th century BCE: key events

Chronyas has 528 events dated to the 4th century BCE (400 BCE to 301 BCE), during the Ancient civilizations. Below are the most notable ones, in date order.

Most of the events in this century belong to Wars, politics & history and Civilizations & archaeology.

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15 February 399 BCEDeath of Socrates
from 398 BCE to 378 BCETwenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt
c. 390s BCEPublication of Apology
c. 396 BCEEruption of Corbetti
from 395 BCE to 387 BCECorinthian War
c. 391 BCEThe Gauls sack Rome
18 July 390 BCEBattle of the Allia
387 BCEPeace of Antalcidas
from 387 BCE to 529 CEConstruction of Platonic Academy
c. 387 BCEOrigins of Ancona
384 BCEBirth of Aristotle
from 380 BCE to 343 BCEThirtieth Dynasty of Egypt
c. 375 BCEWriting of The Republic
c. 375 BCEWriting of the Allegory of the Cave
375 BCEBirth of Chanakya
371 BCEOrigins of Messene
370 BCEDeath of Hippocrates
360 BCEPublication of Timaeus
from 359 BCE to 336 BCEPhilip II of Macedon becomes King of Macedonia
20 July 356 BCEBirth of Alexander the Great
from 351 BCE to 1494Construction of Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
350 BCEHermes and the Infant Dionysus
from 343 BCE to 290 BCESamnite Wars
from 343 BCE to 332 BCEThirty-first Dynasty of Egypt
342 BCEBirth of Epicurus
from 341 BCE to 338 BCESecond Latin War
August 338 BCEBattle of Chaeronea
from 337 BCE to 322 BCELeague of Corinth
from 336 BCE to 330 BCEDarius III becomes King of Kings
from 336 BCE to 323 BCEWars of Alexander the Great
from 336 BCE to 323 BCEAlexander the Great becomes King of Macedonia
from 335 BCE to 86 BCEConstruction of Lyceum
335 BCERise of peripatetic school
335 BCEAlexander the Great crosses into Asia
May 334 BCEBattle of the Granicus
5 November 333 BCEBattle of Issus
from January 332 BCE to July 332 BCESiege of Tyre
c. 331 BCEOrigins of Alexandria
1 October 331 BCEBattle of Gaugamela
from 330 BCE to 323 BCEAlexander the Great becomes Pharaoh
20 January 330 BCEBattle of the Persian Gate on the Mountain
329 BCEConstruction of Panathenaic Stadium
327 BCESiege of the Sogdian Rock
from 327 BCE to 325 BCEIndian campaign of Alexander the Great
c. 326 BCEPytheas of Massalia sails to Britain and the far north
May 326 BCEBattle of the Hydaspes
May 326 BCEOrigins of Alexandria Bucephalous
from November 326 BCE to February 325 BCEMallian Campaign
323 BCEHellenistic Greece
from 323 BCE to 226 CEAtropatene
from 323 BCE to 322 BCELamian War
323 BCEFarnese Hercules
from 323 BCE to 30 BCEHellenistic period
323 BCEConstruction of Temple of Ephesian Artemis
June 323 BCEPartition of Babylon
10 June 323 BCEDeath of Alexander the Great
from 322 BCE to 275 BCEWars of the Diadochi
from 322 BCE to 74 BCEBithynia
from 322 BCE to 185 BCEMaurya empire
322 BCEDeath of Aristotle
321 BCEPartition of Triparadisus
321 BCESeleucid era
c. 320 BCERise of pyrrhonism
c. 320 BCEEruption of Atacazo
c. 315 BCEOrigins of Thessaloniki
c. 314 BCEOrigins of Berat
313 BCEThe Appian Way and the first Roman aqueduct
312 BCEConstruction of Appian Way
from 312 BCE to 63 BCESeleucid Empire
c. 311 BCEOrigins of Chengdu
from 311 BCE to 309 BCEBabylonian War
from 307 BCE to 302 BCEPyrrhus becomes King of Epirus
from 306 BCE to 168 BCEAntigonid dynasty
from 305 BCE to 30 BCEPtolemaic dynasty
from 305 BCE to 283 BCEPtolemy I Soter becomes Pharaoh
from 305 BCE to 30 BCEPtolemaic Kingdom
305 BCERise of Seleucid dynasty
304 BCEBirth of Ashoka
c. 300s BCEAphrodite of Knidos
c. 301 BCEOrigins of Antakya

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