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349 BC.
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Events
Greece
Olynth welcomes Macedonian throne pretenders Arrhidaios and Menelaus, half-brothers of King Philip II. He asks for extradition; when it is refused, he attacks the city. This is supported by the Athenians, who first send their general Chares, who will soon be replaced by Charidemos. In Athens itself, Demosthenes invokes the population in three Olynthian speeches (part of his Philippika) on an anti-Majodonian course.
Rebellion of Eretria on Euboea against Athens
Persian Empire
Persia puts down the uprising in Cyprus.
Died
Appius Claudius Crassus, Roman consul
Leukon I, King of the Bosporan Empire
349 BC. Orontes I, satrap of Armenia at the time Artaxerxes III.