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Year '''350 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Laenas and Scipio''' (or, less frequently, '''year 404 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 350 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Persian Empire ====
* [[Sidon]], the centre of the revolt against [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]], seeks 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 his accession, at the request of the Persian king, [[Artaxerxes III]], Idrieus equips a [[Naval fleet|fleet]] of 40 [[trireme]]s and assembles 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]], aids him in ousting the previous king, [[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 decisively beaten by an army comprising Rome and its allies.

=== 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 (approximate date). It is the grave of the Persian satrap and [[Caria]]n ruler [[Mausolos]] and is built under the direction of his wife [[Artemisia II of Caria|Artemisia]]. The mausoleum, which is considered to be one of the ''[[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]'', is today partly preserved at the [[British Museum]] in [[London]].
* The ''Corinthian capital'' is made in the [[Tholos (Ancient Rome)|tholos]] at [[Epidaurus]]. It is now preserved at the Archaeological Museum in [[Epidaurus]], [[Greece]] (approximate date).
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== Births ==
* [[Dicaearchus]], Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and polymath (d. c. [[285 BC]])
* [[Megasthenes]], Greek historian, diplomat and Indian [[List of Graeco-Roman geographers|ethnographer]] (approximate date) 
* [[Shen Dao]], Chinese philosopher known for his blend of [[Legalism (Chinese philosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Taoism]] (approximate date) (d. c. [[275 BC]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Archytas]], Greek philosopher, mathematician and statesman (or [[347 BC]]) (b. [[428 BC]])<ref>David Sedley, "An Iconography of Xenocrates' Platonism", Michael Erler, Jan Erik Heßler, Federico M. Petrucci, Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 9781108844000, 50</ref><ref>David Deming, Science and Technology in World History, Volume 1: The Ancient World and Classical Civilization, McFarland, 2014, 9780786456574, 75</ref>
* [[Artemisia II of Caria|Artemisia II]], queen of [[Caria]] and sister and wife of king [[Mausolus]] of Caria<ref>{{cite web |title=Artemisia II {{!}} queen of Caria {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Artemisia-II |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=4 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Tollund Man]], [[human sacrifice]] victim on the [[Jutland]] [[peninsula]] in [[Denmark]], possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of the [[Norse mythology|Norse]] god [[Odin]] (approximate date)

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