357 BC

Year 357 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Imperiosus (or, less frequently, year 397 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 357 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC
Years:	360 BC 359 BC 358 BC 357 BC 356 BC 355 BC 354 BC

357 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	357 BC CCCLVI BC
Ab urbe condita	397
Ancient Egypt era	XXX dynasty, 24
- Pharaoh	Nectanebo II, 4
Ancient Greek era	105th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4394
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−949
Berber calendar	594
Buddhist calendar	188
Burmese calendar	−994
Byzantine calendar	5152–5153
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2340 or 2280     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2341 or 2281
Coptic calendar	−640 – −639
Discordian calendar	810
Ethiopian calendar	−364 – −363
Hebrew calendar	3404–3405
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−300 – −299
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2744–2745
Holocene calendar	9644
Iranian calendar	978 BP – 977 BP
Islamic calendar	1008 BH – 1007 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1977
Minguo calendar	2268 before ROC 民前2268年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1824
Thai solar calendar	186–187
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) −230 or −611 or −1383     — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) −229 or −610 or −1382

Events

Persian Empire

• Rhodes falls to the Persian satrap Mausolus of Halicarnassus.

See Purim

Thrace

• The Athenian general and mercenary commander, Chares and the Euboean mercenary Charidemus regain the Thracian Chersonese for Athens from the Thracian king Cersobleptes. Charidemus receives, from Athens, a golden crown for his part in the victory.

Macedonia

• The Macedonian general, Parmenion, wins a great victory over the Illyrians. King Philip II of Macedon, having disposed of an Illyrian threat, occupies the Athenian city of Amphipolis (which commands the gold mines of Mount Pangaion). Philip II now has control of the strategic city which secures the eastern frontier of Macedonia and gives him access into Thrace.
• Philip II of Macedon marries Olympias, the Molossian princess of Epirus thus helping to stabilize Macedonia's western frontier.

Sicily

• The brother-in-law of Dionysius I, Dion, exiled from Syracuse in 366 BC by Dionysius II, assembles a force of 1,500 mercenaries at Zacynthus and sails to Sicily. Dion wrests power from the weak Dionysius II, who is exiled and flees to Locri.

Rome

Gaius Marcius Rutilus elected Consul

Births

Deaths

• Chabrias, Athenian general

References