370s BC

This article concerns the period 379 BC – 370 BC.

379 BC

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By place

Greece

• Sparta suppresses the Chalcidian League and imposes terms favourable to King Amyntas III of Macedonia.^[1]
• A small group of Theban exiles, led by Pelopidas, infiltrate the city of Thebes and assassinates the leaders of the pro-Spartan government. Epaminondas and Gorgidas lead a group of young men who break into the city's armories, take weapons, and surround the Spartans on the Cadmea, assisted by a force of Athenian hoplites. In the Theban assembly the next day, Epaminondas and Gorgidas bring Pelopidas and his men before the audience and exhort the Thebans to fight for their freedom. The assembly responds by acclaiming Pelopidas and his men as liberators. Fearing for their lives, the Spartan garrison surrenders and are evacuated. The Thebans of the pro-Spartan party are also allowed to surrender; they are subsequently executed.
• The Thebans are able to reconstitute their old Boeotian confederacy in a new, democratic form. The cities of Boeotia unite as a federation with an executive body composed of seven generals, or Boeotarchs, elected from seven districts throughout Boeotia.

Births

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376 BC

• Olympias, wife of king Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great (d. 316 BC)

375 BC

• Cleitus the Black, Macedonian general of Alexander the Great (approximate date)
• Chanakya, ancient Indian teacher, author, strategist and royal advisor.^[9]

372 BC

• Mencius, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 289 BC)^[10]

371 BC

• Chanakya, Indian philosopher and advisor (approximate date)
• Theophrastus, Greek philosopher

370 BC

• Marcus Valerius Corvus, Roman hero (d. c. 270 BC)
• Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (d. c. 285 BC) Chanakya

Deaths

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376 BC

• Zhou An Wang, king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty

375 BC

• Hippocrates, Greek physician (approximate year)^[11]

374 BC

• Evagoras, king of Salamis in Cyprus (assassinated)
• Marquess Ai of Han

371 BC

• Cleombrotus I, king of Sparta (killed in the Battle of Leuctra)

370 BC

• Agesipolis II, Agiad king of Sparta
• Democritus of Abdera, Greek philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 460 BC)^[12]
• Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician (b. c. 460 BC)
• Jason of Pherae, ruler of Thessaly