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464 BC - The consuls are A. Postumius Albus Regillensis and Sp.
284 BC - The Gallic raiders are forcibly ejected from the ager Gallicus by the Romans.
170 BC - The consuls are A. Atilius Serranus and A. Hostilius Mancinus.
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 Roman Timeline of the 4th Century BC
388 BC The Aequi are defeated by the Romans at a battle near Bola.
367 BC The amount of public land any man might hold is limited to 500 iugera (300 acres) under a law passed by two tribunes of the plebs, G. Licinius Stolo and L. Sextius.
352 BC The tomb of King Mausolus of Caria, known as the Mausoleum, is built to house the remains of the dead King.
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 SPACE.com -- Long Lost Star Catalog Found in Plain Sight
He calculated the length of the year to within six and a half minutes, developed a scale to rate the brightness of stars, was the first to record a nova, theorized on the motions of the Sun and Moon, provided high quality planetary observations and created the first ever catalog of 1,000 stars.
The date of 125 BC immediately suggests that this is the lost catalog of Hipparchus, who created his star catalog in 129 BC.
The works of Aratus (275 BC), Eudoxus (366 BC), and the Assyrian observer (1130 BC), are all too early, while Ptolemy's work in 128 AD is too late to match up to this star catalog.
www.space.com /scienceastronomy/hipparchus_catalogue_050124.html   (646 words)

  
 Roman Offices
From the second century BC onwards, elections for this office were held every five years, coinciding with the census of the people.
In 367 BC BC the refusal of the plebeian aediles on one occasion to stage circus games for the length the senate desired, led to the senate simply creating two new patrician aediles, the so-called curule aediles (aediles curules) who then obliged in staging the games for the appropriate length of time.
The Quaestor (of which there were four after 421 BC, and ten after 267 BC) was in charge of the military and civic treasury of Rome as well as keeping records.
www.roman-empire.net /republic/rep-offices.html   (1036 words)

  
 366 BC - Biocrawler
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 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC
In Persia, satraps of Artaxerxes II begin a revolt that lasts until 358 BC.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/366_BC   (128 words)

  
 Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
Athenian Empire 479-431 BC Athens had been destroyed in 480 BC, but after the Persian invasion was defeated the next year, the Athenians began to rebuild their walls and to make the Piraeus a major harbor, persuaded by Themistocles, who had championed their victorious navy.
Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC According to Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas had told the Thracians that the Peloponnesians did not seek empire but were struggling to end Athenian imperialism; Brasidas offered autonomy to Thrace, and his policy was confirmed in oaths by the Spartan ephors.
In 410 BC Segesta requested aid from Carthage in a quarrel with Selinus, and the latter was besieged by the western Phoenicians led by the elderly Hannibal who, avenging previous Carthaginian defeats in Sicily, destroyed the city and massacred 16,000, enslaving 5,000 while 2,600 escaped to Acragas.
www.san.beck.org /EC19-GreekWars.html   (19828 words)

  
 Ethics of Roman Expansion to 133 BC by Sanderson Beck
In 358 BC a law against bribery proposed by a tribune was authorized by the senate, and the people voted enthusiastically for a reduction of the interest rate to one-twelfth.
In 287 BC the problem of debt led to the appointment of Hortensius as dictator, and from then on plebiscites passed by the plebeian council had the force of law on everyone and did not have to be approved by the assembly, the classes of centuries, or the senate.
In 225 BC Celtic Gauls crossed the alps with an army of 150,000 infantry and 20,000 horse and chariots.
www.san.beck.org /EC24-RomanExpansion.html   (15529 words)

  
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 Chronology of the Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
753 B.C. - (This is a traditional date accepted by ancient historians, but for which there is no certain evidence.) Rome was allegedly founded on 21 April by Romulus (in myth a descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas), who later killed his twin brother, Remus, in a quarrel.
58—51 BC - Caesar's conquest of all of Gaul.
53 BC - The Parthians defeat a Roman army at the battle of Carrhae in which Crassus was killed.
www.personal.kent.edu /~bkharvey/roman/sources/repchron.htm   (1004 words)

  
 History of Ancient Sparta
Around 1200 BC, by the marriage of the daughter of Menelaos Ermione with the son of Agamemnon Orestes, the kingdoms of Argos and Sparta were united.
At the third year of the war (429 BC) Archidamos marched towards the city of Plataea and demanded to hand him over the city and their land properties, promising that after the war everything would be restored to them.
In 366 BC, Thebes enlarged the confederation by including cities of the Corinthian gulf and Achaia, but lost them again, when demanded that their oligarchic government ought to be deposed.
www.sikyon.com /Sparta/history_eg.html   (10532 words)

  
 History of Ancient Sikyon/Sicyon
One of the greatest achievements of Kleisthenes was the liberation of the Oracle at Delphi from the town of Krissa(585 BC) and the come Kirra, which was levying exorbitant dues and even robbed the visitors who came to their port, in order to consult the Oracle.
Aeschines, the successor of Kleisthenes, was expelled by the Lacedemonians in 556 BC and Sikyon joined the Peloponnesian league remaining loyal ally of Sparta for the next one hundred and fifty years.
In 303 BC, Demetrios Poliorketes razed the ancient city in the plain and built a new one on the ruins of the old Acropolis, which lied on a high triangular plateau, 4km inland.
www.sikyon.com /Sicyon/shistory1_eg.html   (3553 words)

  
 ARISTOTLE biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was born in 384 BC, in Stagira, a small coastal town in Chalcidice, north of the Aegean sea.
Ancient Stagira was founded in 655 BC by Ionian colonists from the island of Andros, and survived until the Middle Ages.
Philip II (382-336 BC) was a mighty king, who increased the martial power of Macedonia tremendously, and gained control of a widening area, Athens included, arranging a federal system of Greek states.
www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/aristotle/aristotle-03-stagira.htm   (1968 words)

  
 Delphi and the Oracle of Apollo
In 548 BC when fire destroyed the 8th century temple of Apollo, funds were raised from all over the Mediterranean to rebuild the temple and enlarge the sanctuary.
The Pergamon dynasts, famous for their battles with the Gauls, were generous patrons of the sanctuary in the third century BC and built a stoa (the Stoa of Attalos I) as well as refurbishing existing monuments.
The Treasury of the Massalians was built in 530 BC and was building with two Aeolic columns, in antis, supporting the front porch and made of marble from the island of Paros.
www.odysseyadventures.ca /articles/delphi/articledelphi.htm   (3249 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, MacDowell, Demosthenes, Speeches 27-38
When Demosthenes came of age in 366, Aphobus did vacate the house and give back the remaining slaves with some cash, but Demosthenes estimates that the total value of what he was given was no more than 70 minas (somewhat over 1 talent).
The paragraphe procedure was first used in 400 BC by a man who claimed that he could not legally be prosecuted for an offense committed before the amnesty of 403 (Isoc.
Even those, however, are surely genuine texts of the fourth century BC and can safely be used as evidence for the social and legal conditions of that time.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exmacdem.html   (2252 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 4th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Philip II of Macedonia (born 382, reigned 359–336 BC).
Darius III of Persia, last King of the Achaemenid dynasty (born 380, reigned 359–330 BC).
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /4th_century_BC.htm   (269 words)

  
 Ptolemy - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
In 246 he was provoked to a Syrian war to avenge the murder of his sister Berenice at Antioch; in the course of this campaign he met with remarkable success, overran Syria, plundered Susa and Babylonia, penetrated to the shores of India and captured the important stronghold of Seleucia (1 Macc 11:8).
Balas was defeated in a decisive battle on the Oenoparas and killed, but Ptolemy himself died in 146 BC from the effects of a fall from his horse in the battle (1 Macc 1:18; 10:51; 2 Macc 1:10; 4:21).
In his reign the Jewish temple of Leontopolis near Hellopolis was founded in 154 BC (Josephus, Ant, XIII, iii, 1 f), and two Jewish generals, Onias and Dositheus, were at the head of his armies and had a large share in the government (Josephus, Apion II, 5).
www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T7149   (1761 words)

  
 Ptolemy I Soter Summary
In 336 B.C. when Philip was assassinated by a conspiracy of nobles, Ptolemy returned to the court and supported Alexander's claim to the feudal throne.
Ptolemy accompanied Alexander on his campaigns to the Danube in 336 B.C. and to crush the Corinthian League's rebellion and to destroy perfidious Thebes in 335 B.C. Ptolemy encouraged and aided Alexander's invasion of Asia Minor to liberate the eastern Greeks from the Persian Empire of Darius III and to invade Syria and conquer Persia.
He was the son of Arsinoe of Macedonia -- either by her husband Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman, or by her lover, Philip II of Macedon.
www.bookrags.com /Ptolemy_I_Soter   (2176 words)

  
 history18aearliestcivilizations2classicalrome
In 753 BC Rome was founded by the semi-historic and semi-mythical Romulus, the twin son of a Rhea Silvia, the daughter of the King of Alba who was forced by his brother to become a Vestal Virgin so that she would bear no heirs to the throne.
In 366 BC the office of praetor was created (their numbers increased to four in 227 BC) to serve in the stead of the consuls when they were away from Rome.
Scipio Africanus Minor (185—129 BC: the adopted son of the eldest son of Scipio Africanus Major) led the blockade of Carthage and the house-to-house arrests of the Carthaginian people (who were executed and sold into slavery), and the subsequent razing of the city.
home.att.net /~history240/history18aancientcivilizations2classicalrome.html   (4279 words)

  
 Tales of Rome
The Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus (flourished in 25 BC) wrote that Rhome was said to be the woman who had fired Aeneas' ship because she was tired from their travelling, forcing the Trojans to settle in Latinum.
Servius Tullius was the son-in-law of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and was the sixth king of Rome (578-534 BC).
Though the power of Rome had gained new heights in the 1st century BC, several civil wars saw the dwindling of power of the Senate and the increase powers of the proconsuls (ex-consuls who served as provincial governors) with the backing of the military might of the Roman legions.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/rome.html   (5263 words)

  
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 Time will tell of stars that fell... Part Two
In the second millennium BC, when this statue was erected, the Egyptian Society had demonstrated an extraordinary recovery, but the price of preservation was petrifaction: the society was immobilized by an inflexible hierarchical structure that impeded new growth.
Date uncertain : 1200-800 BC The Greeks also gave Italy its first lessons in scientific war-craft, in the fortification of towns with walls of dressed masonry, and the decision of set battles by the shock-tactics of armoured spearmen.
343 BC The year in which the Romans consented to go to the aid of Copua against the powerful Samnite tribes that were threatening her.
www.athenasweb.com /AgesII.html   (9178 words)

  
 Praetor - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Praetorian Guard, originally a bodyguard for a Roman general of praetor and later for the Roman emperor.
By the 2nd century bc the bodyguard of a...
85-42 bc), Roman political leader and soldier, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Praetor.html   (108 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 366   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Baptized 366, he spent most of the next 20 years in travel.
Systemax's 366 MHz P-II Unit Wins Laptop Buyer's 'Best Buy' Award.
Sun Life Financial reports second quarter net income of $366 million, operating earnings up 25 per cent from 2002; QUARTERLY HIGHLIGHTS:.
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 Why Leap Years?
Between 1904 and 2096, leap years with same day of week for each date repeat every 28 years which means that the last time February had 5 Fridays was in 1980 and next time will be in 2036.
A leap year is a year with one extra day inserted into February, the leap year is 366 days with 29 days in February as opposed to the normal 28 days.
In ancient times, it was very usual to have lunar (moon) calendars, with 12 and/or 13 months every year.
www.timeanddate.com /date/leapyear.html   (898 words)

  
 Consul - Wikinfo
The office of consul was believed to date back to the traditional establishment of the Republic in 509 BC, although the early history is partly legendary, and the succession of consuls is not continuous in the 5th century.
Initially only patricians could be consuls, and later the plebeians won the right to elect one of their own; the first plebeian consul was Lucius Sextius, in 366 BC.
With the passage of time, the consulship became the normal endpoint of the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices pursued by the ambitious Roman.
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 Discovery of The Lost Star Catalog of Hipparchus on The Farnese Atlas - Press Release
To fill this need, I have taken photographs appropriate for photogrammetry and have measured the positions of 70 points in the constellation figures and transformed these into RA and DEC in the globe's reference frame.
A chisquare analysis then shows the date of the constellations to be 125 BC with a one-sigma uncertainty of 55 years.
Compare the position of the Ram's horn being exactly on the meridian line (the colure) on the back view of the Farnese Atlas with the date around 125 BC when the Ram's horn actually was at the same position.
www.phys.lsu.edu /farnese   (528 words)

  
 Harvard University Press: The Theban Hegemony, 371-362 BC by John Buckler
Harvard University Press: The Theban Hegemony, 371-362 BC by John Buckler
The Trials of Epameinondas and Pelopidas (Spring 369 BC)
Epameinondas' Third Invasion of the Peloponnesos (366 BC)
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/BUCTHE.html?show=contents   (74 words)

  
 Quadra Island, BC, Canada
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 Game Fish of British Columbia. BC Sportfishing. BC Game Fish Species
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