385 BC Facts for Kids

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	410s BC 400s BC 390s BC – 380s BC – 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC
Years:	388 BC 387 BC 386 BC – 385 BC – 384 BC 383 BC 382 BC

385 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

385 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	385 BC CCCLXXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	369
Ancient Egypt era	XXIX dynasty, 14
- Pharaoh	Hakor, 9
Ancient Greek era	98th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4366
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−977
Berber calendar	566
Buddhist calendar	160
Burmese calendar	−1022
Byzantine calendar	5124–5125
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2312 or 2252 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2313 or 2253
Coptic calendar	−668 – −667
Discordian calendar	782
Ethiopian calendar	−392 – −391
Hebrew calendar	3376–3377
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−328 – −327
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2716–2717
Holocene calendar	9616
Iranian calendar	1006 BP – 1005 BP
Islamic calendar	1037 BH – 1036 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1949
Minguo calendar	2296 before ROC 民前2296年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1852
Thai solar calendar	158–159
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) −258 or −639 or −1411 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) −257 or −638 or −1410

Year 385 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Capitolinus, Cornelius, Capitolinus, Papirius, Capitolinus and Fidenas

Events

By place

Greece

Jason of Pherae becomes tyrant of Thessaly.
Dionysius I of Syracuse attempts to restore Alcetas I of Epirus to the throne.
Bardyllis becomes king of Illyria and the Dardani and forms the Bardyllian Dynasty.

By topic

Education

Plato forms his Academy, teaching mathematics, astronomy and other sciences as well as philosophy. It is dedicated to the Attic hero Academus. Philanthropists pay all costs; students pay no fees.

Astronomy

Democritus announces that the Milky Way is composed of many stars.

Deaths

for more information, see Category:385 BC deaths.

385 BC facts for kids