401 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 6th century BC · 5th century BC · 4th century BC |
| Decades: | 430s BC · 420s BC · 410s BC · 400s BC · 390s BC · 380s BC · 370s BC |
| Years: | 404 BC · 403 BC · 402 BC · 401 BC · 400 BC · 399 BC · 398 BC |
| 401 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 401 BC CD BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 353 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXVIII dynasty, 4 |
| - Pharaoh | Amyrtaeus, 4 |
| Ancient Greek era | 94th Olympiad, year 4 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4350 |
| Bengali calendar | −993 |
| Berber calendar | 550 |
| Buddhist calendar | 144 |
| Burmese calendar | −1038 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5108–5109 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2296 or 2236 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 2297 or 2237 |
| Coptic calendar | −684 – −683 |
| Discordian calendar | 766 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −408 – −407 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3360–3361 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −344 – −343 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2700–2701 |
| Holocene calendar | 9600 |
| Iranian calendar | 1022 BP – 1021 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1053 BH – 1052 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1933 |
| Minguo calendar | 2312 before ROC 民前2312年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1868 |
| Thai solar calendar | 142–143 |
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Year 401 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Potitus, Cossus, Camillus, Ambustus, Mamercinus and Iullus (or, less frequently, year 353 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 401 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
By place
Persian empire
- Cyrus the Younger uses a quarrel with Tissaphernes over the Ionian cities as a pretext for gathering a large army and also pretends to prepare an expedition to Pisidia, in the Taurus Mountains. Cyrus starts out with about 20,000 men, of whom around 10,000 are Greek mercenaries. When he reaches the Euphrates River at Thapsacus, he announces that he is marching against Artaxerxes II. He advances unopposed into Babylonia; but Artaxerxes, warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes, hastily gathers an army. The two forces meet in the Battle of Cunaxa, north of Babylon, where Cyrus is slain.
Greece
- The Greek mercenaries fighting for Cyrus are left stranded after Cyrus' defeat. They fight their way north through hostile Persians, Armenians, and Kurds to Trapezus on the coast of the Black Sea under Xenophon, who becomes their leader when the Persian satrap, Tissaphernes has Clearchus of Sparta and the other senior Greek captains captured and executed by Artaxerxes.
- Agesilaus II becomes king of Sparta on the death of his stepbrother Agis II.
China
- Zhou an wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
By topic
Literature
- Sophocles' tragic play Oedipus at Colonus is performed posthumously. It is produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in Athens.
Births
Deaths
- Agis II, Eurypontid king of Sparta
- Clearchus, Spartan general and mercenary
- Cyrus the Younger, younger son of Darius II, King of Persia
References
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