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Centuries: 5th century BCE - 4th century BCE - 3rd century BCE

Decades: 440s BCE 430s BCE 420s BCE 410s BCE 400s BCE - 390s BCE - 380s BCE 370s BCE 360s BCE 350s BCE 340s BCE

Years: 401 BCE 400 BCE 399 BCE 398 BCE 397 BCE - 396 BCE - 395 BCE 394 BCE 393 BCE 392 BCE 391 BCE

Events

• Rome captures and sacks the Etruscan city of Veii after a 10-year siege
• Carthaginians are forced to abandon their siege of Syracuse (begun in 398 BCE), but destroy Messina.
• Plato publishes his Apologia, which is a defense of his mentor Socrates
• Agesilaus II, king of Sparta, leads an expedition to Asia to secure Greek cities against a Persian attack
• Kyniska, the daughter Archidamus II, becomes the first woman to win an event at the Olympic Games when the horse-drawn chariot she sponsors crosses the finish line first, even though the prohibition on women competing forces her to hire a man to drive it.

Births

• Xenocrates, Greek philosopher and rector of the Academy

Deaths

• 390s BC