338 BC
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BCDecades: 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC - 330s BC - 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC
343 BC 342 BC 341 BC 340 BC 339 BC - 338 BC - 337 BC 336 BC 335 BC 334 BC 333 BC
Events
- August 2 - BattleCheronea: PhilipMacedon defeats AthensThebes indefinitive battleGreek Independence
- King ArsesPersia ascends toPersian throne.
- Agis III succeeds his father Archidamus III as kingSparta
- BattleTrifanum: The Roman general T. Manlius Torquatus decisively defeatsLatins.
- Artaxerxes III, kingPersia (murdered)
- Archidamus III, kingSparta (diedbattle)
- Isocrates, Athenian orator
- Shang Yang, Chinese statesmanQin (executed - torn apart by chariot)
