What is 350 BC?
{{Year nav|-350}} {{BC year in topic|350}} __NOTOC__ Year '''350 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. == Events == === By place === ==== Persian Empire ==== * [[Sidon]], the centre of the revolt against [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]], asks for help from its sister city of [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] and from [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] but gets very little. * [[Idrieus]], the second son of [[Hecatomnus]], succeeds to the [[throne]] of [[Caria]] on the death of [[Artemisia II of Caria|Artemisia II]], the widow of his elder brother [[Mausolus]]. Shortly after he becomes ruler, at the request of the Persian king, [[Artaxerxes III]], Idrieus equips a [[Naval fleet|fleet]] of 40 [[trireme]]s and an army of 8,000 mercenary troops and despatches them against [[Cyprus]], under the command of the [[Athens|Athenian]] general [[Phocion]]. ==== Greece ==== * [[Alexander I of Epirus|Alexander I]] becomes king of [[Epirus]] after his brother-in-law [[Philip II of Macedon]] dethrones Alexander's cousin [[Arymbas]]. * [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] has [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]] in [[Thrace]] sacked. ==== Roman Republic ==== * The [[Gauls]], once more threatening [[Roman Republic|Rome]], are beaten by an army of Rome and its allies. ==== America ==== * The [[Maya civilization]] in [[Mesoamerica]] begins (approximate date). === By topic === ==== Science ==== * [[Aristotle]] argues for a spherical [[Earth]] using [[lunar eclipse]]s and other observations. Also he discusses [[logic]]al reasoning in ''[[Organon]].'' * [[Plato]] proposes a geocentric model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere. ==== Art ==== * [[Praxiteles]] makes the ''[[Aphrodite of Knidos]]'' (approximate date). A composite of two similar Roman copies after the original marble is now kept at [[Musei Vaticani]], Museo Pio Clementino, Gabinetto delle Maschere in [[Rome]]. * The building of the [[Mausoleum of Maussollos|Mausoleum]] in [[Halikarnassos]] (modern [[Bodrum]] in [[Turkey]]) is completed (approx