397 BC
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In the year 397 bce
Tools
Double-armed catapults operating on the principle of torsion are introduced by engineers working for Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse. These devices, which use hair ropes to hold potential energy, are used to propel darts at the enemy. See also 332 bce Tools.
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397 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC |
| Decades: | 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC – 390s BC – 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC |
| Years: | 400 BC 399 BC 398 BC – 397 BC – 396 BC 395 BC 394 BC |
| 397 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 397 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 357 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4354 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2240 – -2239 |
| Bengali calendar | -989 |
| Berber calendar | 554 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 148 |
| Burmese calendar | -1034 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5112 – 5113 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (2240/2300) — to —
甲申年(2241/2301) |
| Coptic calendar | -680 – -679 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -404 – -403 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3364 – 3365 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -340 – -339 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2705 – 2706 |
| Holocene calendar | 9604 |
| Iranian calendar | 1018 BP – 1017 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1049 BH – 1048 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 1937 |
| Minguo calendar | 2308 before ROC 民前2308年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 147 |
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Year 397 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Iullus, Albinus, Medullinus, Maluginensis, Fidenas and Capitolinus (or, less frequently, year 357 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 397 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Greece
- Called on by the Ionians to assist them against the Persian King Artaxerxes II, King Agesilaus II of Sparta launches an ambitious campaign in Asia Minor.
Carthage
- The Carthaginians establish the town of Lilybaeum in Sicily to replace Motya.
- Himilco crosses to Sicily from Carthage with a fresh army, conquers the north coast, puts Dionysius I, the Tyrant of Syracuse, on the defensive and besieges Syracuse. However, the Carthaginian army again suffers from the plague. The Syracusans counterattack and completely defeat Himilco's army. Himilco has to escape back to Carthage.
Births
- Dionysius II, son of Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 343 BC)
- Antipater, a Macedonian general (d. 319 BC)
Deaths
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