Wikipedia:
350 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 | |
| Gregorian calendar | 350 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 404 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2193 – -2192 |
| Buddhist calendar | 195 |
| Chinese calendar | 2287/2347 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2288/2348([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -633 – -632 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -357 – -356 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3411 – 3412 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -294 – -293 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2752 – 2753 |
| Holocene calendar | 9651 |
| Iranian calendar | 971 BP – 970 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1001 BH – 1000 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 311 (皇紀311年) |
| Julian calendar | -304 |
| Korean calendar | 1984 |
| Thai solar calendar | 194 |
Events
By place
Persian Empire
- Sidon, the centre of the revolt against Persia, seeks help from its sister city of Tyre and from Egypt but gets very little.
- Idrieus, the second son of Hecatomnus, succeeds to the throne of Caria on the death of Artemisia II, the widow of his elder brother Mausolus. Shortly after his accession, at the request of the Persian king, Artaxerxes III, Idrieus equips a fleet of 40 triremes and assembles an army of 8,000 mercenary troops and despatches them against Cyprus, under the command of the Athenian general Phocion.
Greece
- Alexander I becomes king of Epirus after his brother-in-law Philip II of Macedon dethrones Alexander's cousin Arymbas.
- Philip II has Abdera in Thrace sacked.
Roman Republic
- The Gauls, once more threatening Rome, are decisively beaten by an army comprising Rome and its allies.
By topic
Science
- Aristotle argues for a spherical Earth using lunar eclipses and other observations. Also he discusses logical reasoning in Organon.
- Plato proposes a geocentric model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere.
Art
- Praxiteles makes the Aphrodite of Knidos (approximate date). A composite of two similar Roman copies after the original marble is now kept at Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Gabinetto delle Maschere in Rome.
Births
- Dicaearchus, Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and polygraph (d. c. 285 BC)
- Cassander, king of Macedonia and founder of Antipatrid dynasty (approximate date) (d. c. 297 BC)
- Shen Dao, Chinese philosopher known for his blend of Legalism and Taoism (approximate date) (d. c. 275 BC)
Deaths
- Tollund Man, human sacrifice victim on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of the Norse god Odin (approximate date)
- Artemisia, Queen of Caria and sister and wife of King Mausolus of Caria
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