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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades: 380s BC  370s BC  360s BC  – 350s BC –  340s BC  330s BC  320s BC
Years: 353 BC 352 BC 351 BC – 350 BC – 349 BC 348 BC 347 BC
350 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
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


Year 350 BC was a time long ago, over 2,300 years before today! It was a year in the ancient Roman calendar. Many important things happened around the world during this time, from big battles to new ideas in science and amazing art.

Events

What Happened Around the World?

Persia and the Middle East

  • The city of Sidon was rebelling against the powerful Persian Empire. Sidon asked its nearby city, Tyre, and Egypt for help, but they didn't get much support.
  • Idrieus became the ruler of Caria after his sister-in-law, Artemisia II, passed away.
  • Soon after becoming ruler, the Persian king, Artaxerxes III, asked Idrieus for help. Idrieus sent a fleet of 40 triremes (ancient warships) and an army of 8,000 paid soldiers, called mercenaries. This force went to Cyprus, led by the general Phocion from Athens.

Ancient Greece

Roman Republic

  • The Gauls, a group of people from Europe, were once again threatening Rome. However, an army made up of soldiers from Rome and its allies managed to defeat them.

The Americas

Big Ideas and Art

Science Discoveries

  • The famous Greek thinker Aristotle suggested that the Earth was a sphere (like a ball). He used observations like lunar eclipses to support his idea. He also wrote about how to think logically in his book Organon.
  • Another great Greek philosopher, Plato, proposed a geocentric model of the universe. This idea suggested that the Earth was at the center, and the stars rotated around it on a fixed sphere.

Amazing Art and Buildings

  • The sculptor Praxiteles created the famous statue called the Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman copies of this statue can still be seen today in the Musei Vaticani in Rome.
  • The building of the Mausoleum in Halikarnassos (which is now Bodrum in Turkey) was finished. This grand tomb was built for the Persian ruler Mausolos by his wife, Artemisia. It was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Parts of it are now kept at the British Museum in London.
  • The Corinthian capital (a fancy top part of a column) was made for the tholos (a round building) at Epidaurus. You can see it today at the Archaeological Museum in Epidaurus, Greece.

Important People Born

Important People Who Died

See also

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