380 BC

By place

Persian empire

• Persia forces the Athenians to withdraw their general Chabrias from Egypt. Chabrias has been successfully supporting the Egyptian Pharaohs in maintaining their independence from the Persian Empire.

  Egypt

• The Egyptian Pharaoh Hakor dies and is succeeded by his son Nepherites II, but the latter is overthrown by Nectanebo I within the year, ending the Twenty-ninth dynasty of Egypt. Nectanabo becomes the first Pharaoh of the Thirtieth dynasty of Egypt.

  Greece

• Cleombrotus I succeeds his brother Agesipolis I as king of Sparta.

  Italy

• The Roman Republic holds elections for military tribunes with consular power. Military tribunes are as follows. Lucius Valerius, Publius Valerius, Gaius Sergius, Licinius Menenius, Publius Papirius and Servius Cornelius Maluginensis. War springs up with the Praenestines and they soon move to the territory of the Gabii, as soon as they hear of civil disputes in Rome. In Rome the enrolment of troops cannot start, as the tribunes and the commons oppose it. The young men refuse to enroll their names and the tribunes will not allow those bound over to be taken away for military service. The Praenstines meanwhile see that Rome has no army in the field, so they proceed to destroy all the fields up to Rome and appear near the walls of Rome. Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus is made dictator, and he chooses Aulus Sempronius Atratinus as master of the horse. Quinctius defeats the enemy at Allia. Afterwards he captures eight towns subject to Praenste, stormes Velitrae, and accepts the surrender of Praenste. Quinctius holds a triumph in which he brings with him a statue of Jupiter from Praenste.

  By topic

Art

• What some historians call the Rich style in Greece comes to an end.