-370

This page relates to the year -370 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Be: Assassination of Jason de Phères, tyrant of the town of Phères, which had subjected to its capacity almost all the Thessalie, part of the Épire and had interposed between Sparte and Thèbes after the Bataille of Leuctres. Its nephew Alexandre de Phères succeeds to him. Its death makes it possible Thébains to subordinate the people of central Greece: Phocidiens, Locridiens, Malians, Acarnaniens and Eubéens.

Attempt failed of oligarchical coup d'etat Argos. 1200 rich person are condemned to died and are carried out with blow of stick by the demonstrations .

Mantinée is rebuilt in spite of the protests of Agésilas II of Sparte.
Épaminondas is in the Peloponnese, in Laconie, but it avoids attacking Sparte. On its councils the Arcadie NS base Megalopolis which becomes their capital.

Civil war enters the oligarchs laconisants to the capacity and democratic partisans of a federation of Arcadiens to Tégée. Victoire of the democrats with the assistance of Mantinéens. Sparte sends Agésilas II in Arcadie. Arcadiens gather under the authority of the strategist Lycomédès of Mantinée. They receive the support of Argos and of Élis, but the embassy sent to Athens does not obtain an answer. The Philistines, solicited in their turn, send their béotarques the most prestigious, Épaminondas and Pélopidas in the Peloponnese (winter -370/-369). Agésilas leaves Arcadie, but the Béotarque S, with the head of 50 000 men, walk towards the Laconie, whom they plunder, but give up seizing Sparte. Épaminondas penetrates in Messénie where it is accommodated as a liberator. It creates the new city of Messène, populated old Hilotes and of Messéniens dispersed which return in their fatherland. Sparte loses half of its territory. Arcadiens, unified, found the new city of Mégalopolis at the border with Laconie where the Parliament of the Ten thousand will sit. Athens, for its part, reacts tardily at the request of assistance of Sparte and the army of Iphicrate arrives in the Peloponnese whereas forwarding thebaine is completed.

Crisis the death of Amyntas III of Macedonia. Chalcidiens support another branch that of Alexandre, wire of Amyntas, which carries it only thanks to the assistance of the Athenian strategist Iphicrate, son-in-law of the king of Thrace Cotys.

With Rome, Consul At of consular powerful orators: C. Licinius Stolo and Lucius Sextius. additional year.

the satrap S of the Persian Empire enter in revolt against the central capacity, following the independence of the Egypt in -404.

the relationship between Aksoum and Méroé worsens. The north of the Ethiopia east invades by Méroïtiques.

the astronomer and geographer Eudoxe de Cnide develops a theory of the concentric spheres allowing a better comprehension of the planetary movements. It fixes also the length of the year at 365 days a quarter.

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