385 BC

Year 385 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Capitolinus, Cornelius, Capitolinus, Papirius, Capitolinus and Fidenas

385 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

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385 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	385 BC CCCLXXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	369
Ancient Egypt era	XXIX dynasty, 14
- Pharaoh	Hakor, 9
Ancient Greek era	98th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4366
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−977
Berber calendar	566
Buddhist calendar	160
Burmese calendar	−1022
Byzantine calendar	5124–5125
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2312 or 2252     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2313 or 2253
Coptic calendar	−668 – −667
Discordian calendar	782
Ethiopian calendar	−392 – −391
Hebrew calendar	3376–3377
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−328 – −327
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2716–2717
Holocene calendar	9616
Iranian calendar	1006 BP – 1005 BP
Islamic calendar	1037 BH – 1036 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1949
Minguo calendar	2296 before ROC 民前2296年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1852
Thai solar calendar	158–159
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) −258 or −639 or −1411     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) −257 or −638 or −1410

Events

By place

Greece

• Jason of Pherae becomes tyrant of Thessaly.
• Dionysius I of Syracuse attempts to restore Alcetas I of Epirus to the throne.
• Bardyllis becomes king of Illyria and the Dardani and forms the Bardyllian Dynasty.

By topic

Education

• Plato forms his Academy, teaching mathematics, astronomy and other sciences as well as philosophy. It is dedicated to the Attic hero Academus. Philanthropists pay all costs; students pay no fees.

Astronomy

• Democritus announces that the Milky Way is composed of many stars.^[1]