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396 BC
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades: 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC - 390s BC - 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC
Years: 401 BC 400 BC 399 BC 398 BC 397 BC - 396 BC - 395 BC 394 BC 393 BC 392 BC 391 BC
Events
- Rome capture and sack the Etruscan city of Veii after a 10-year siege
- Carthaginians are forced to abandon their siege of Syracuse (begun in 398 BC), 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
Births
- Xenocrates, Greek philosopher and rector of the Academy
Deaths
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