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399 BC

 
Sci & Tech Chronology: In the year 399 bce

Transportation

Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse introduces the quinquereme (a ship with five banks of rowers) to his navy, which already includes quadriremes. As a result, Syracuse becomes a major naval power, sweeping the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas free of pirates. Athens and other Hellenic cities soon begin adding the two new types of ship to their own navies. By 325 bce Athens has 43 quadriremes and 7 quinqueremes along with its main fleet of 360 triremes. See also 410 bce Transportation; 315 bce Transportation.


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399 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 399 BC
Ab urbe condita 355
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2242 – -2241
Berber calendar 552
Buddhist calendar 146
Burmese calendar -1036
Byzantine calendar 5110 – 5111
Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
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[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2239/2299)
Coptic calendar -682 – -681
Ethiopian calendar -406 – -405
Hebrew calendar 3362 – 3363
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -343 – -342
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2703 – 2704
Holocene calendar 9602
Iranian calendar 1020 BP – 1019 BP
Islamic calendar 1051 BH – 1050 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 1935
Thai solar calendar 145

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Greece

  • February 15—The Greek philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by Athenian authorities, condemned for impiety and the corruption of youth. He refuses to flee into exile and is sentenced to death 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.

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