4th Century BC - Events

Events

• Mid-4th century BC: Priene, Western Turkey is rebuilt.
• Pectoral, from the tomb of a Scythian at Ordzhonikidze, Russia, is made. It is now at Historical Museum, Kiev.
• Late 4th century BC: Diadem, reputed to have been found in a tomb near the Hellespont. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Praxiteles or his followers makes Hermes and the infant Dionysos. A Hellenistic or Roman copy after a Late Classical original is at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Discovered in the rubble or the ruined Temple of Hera at Olympia in 1875.
• 399 BC: Socrates is executed in Athens on charges of impiety and corrupting Athenian youth.
• 387 BC: Battle of the Allia and subsequent Gaulish sack of Rome.
• 383 BC: Second Buddhist council at Vesali, 100 years after the Parinirvana.
• 373 BC: The Greek city of Helike sinks into the sea causing the death of its entire population.
• c. 360 BC: Theater of Tholos, at Epidauros is built.
• Mid-4th century BC: Skopas (?) makes Panel from the Amazon frieze, south side of the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. It is now kept at The British Museum, London.
• 354 BC: the Battle of Guiling in China.
• 342 BC: the Battle of Maling in China.
• 330 BC: Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire, decline and depopulation of Ancient Greece with large migrations towards the conquered lands.
• 316 BC: The Chinese State of Qin conquers the State of Shu, located in modern-day Sichuan, the ultimate success of the conquest due large in part to the strategy of Zhang Yi.
• 312 BC: Seleucus I Nicator establishes himself in Babylon, founding the Seleucid Empire.
• Invasion of the Celts into Ireland.
• The Scythians are beginning to be absorbed into the Sarmatian people.
• The Romans conquer the Abruzzi region, decline of the Etruscan civilization.
• The Dalmatae push the Liburni west and the Daorsi and Ardiaei east