390s BC

This article concerns the period 399 BC – 390 BC.

399 BC

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By place

Greece

• February 15 – The Greek philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by Athenian authorities, condemned for impiety and the corruption of youth.^[1] He refuses to flee into exile and dies by drinking hemlock.
• Sparta forces Elis to surrender in the spring.
• The Spartan admiral, Lysander, tries to effect a political revolution in Sparta by suggesting that the king should not automatically be given the leadership of the army. He also suggests that the position of king should be elective. However, he is unsuccessful in achieving these reforms, and earns the disfavour of King Agesilaus II of Sparta.
• King Archelaus I of Macedon is killed during a hunt, by one of the royal pages, his lover Craterus.^[2]

Egypt

• King Amyrtaeus of Egypt is defeated in battle by his successor, Nepherites I of Mendes, and executed at Memphis. King Nepherites I, or Nefaarud I, founds the Twenty-ninth dynasty of Egypt. He makes Mendes his capital.

Births

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398 BC

• The ‘Panke Baobab’ tree would have sprouted this during this year.^[16]

397 BC

• Dionysius II, son of Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 343 BC)

396 BC

• Xenocrates, Greek philosopher and scholarch (or rector) of the Academy (d. 314 BC)^{[citation needed]}

390 BC

• Hypereides, Athenian orator and politician (approximate date)
• The Tollund Man (approximate date, based on his being forty years old at the time of death)

Deaths

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399 BC

• King Amyrtaeus of Egypt
• King Archelaus I of Macedon^[2]
• Socrates, Greek philosopher (b. c. 470 BC)^[17]

396 BC

• Himilco, Carthaginian general. ^[6]

395 BC

• Lysander, Spartan general and admiral
• Tissaphernes, Persian satrap
• Shishunaga, founder of the Shishunaga dynasty of South Asia

393 BC

• Nepherites I or Nefaarud I, Pharaoh of Egypt
• Emperor Kōshō of Japan, according to legend.

392 BC

• Conon, Athenian general (approximate date)

391 BC

• Thibron, Spartan general
• Mozi, Chinese philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 470 BC)^[18]

390 BC

• Andocides, Athenian orator and politician (b. 440 BC)^[19]