404 BC.

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This page concerns the year 404 of the Julian Proleptic calendar.

Events
Between 17 September 405 B.C. and 10 April: death of Darius , king of the Persians and Pharaoh of Egypt.
Beginning of the reign of Artaxerxes Mnemon (who has memory), king of Persia (end in 359 BC). He escapes an attack by his brother Cyrus the Younger, who will be pardoned on the intervention of his mother Parysatis. At the beginning of his reign, he failed on an expedition to Egypt and lost part of Cyprus, Phoenicia and Syria.
Cyrus the Younger regains his command of Sarde where he opposes the Satrap Tissapherne. The Greeks of Asia then have the opportunity to make allegiance to Cyrus (especially the oligarchs, friends of Lysandre), to Tissapherne (often the choice of Democrats), or to wait.
Beginning of the reign of Amyrtah (), Pharaoh of Egypt (end in 399 B.C.). Amyrthea, prince of Sais (descendant of the other Amyrthea revolted in 460 B.C.), taking advantage of the death of Darius and the quarrel of succession that agitates the Persian power, liberates Egypt from the Persian occupation (401 B.C.) and extends its power to Elephantine. He founded the only Pharaoh.

22 April: Athens, besieged by Lysandre, hungry, capitule. End of the Peloponnese War. This is the beginning of the hegemony of Sparta in Greece (late in 371 BC).
A peace treaty is signed between Athens, Sparta and its allies, negotiated by an embassy led by Thér brought to Sellasie. Athens is spared and keeps its enclosure (Sparta is wary of Thebes who wanted to shave the city with Corinth). Only the Long Walls and the Piraeus fortifications will be destroyed. The remaining ships are delivered, except twelve, exiles are allowed to return. Athens becomes an ally of Sparta, placed under his hegemony.
Lysandre imposed on Athens the oligarchic council of the Trent (Critias, Thermen, etc.). They themselves appointed the 500 members of the Council as well as the magistrates and surrounded by a guard of 300 "fouls", supplemented later by a Spartan garrison. The Thirty begin by slaughtering the sycophiles and "demagogues". Then they attack, in part for financial reasons, the smart and rich citizens (1500 people are massacred). A civic body of 3,000 citizens, the only one allowed to stay in Athens and enjoy judicial guarantees, is created. Thermenus, who had negotiated the surrender of Athens, opposed Critias. Considered too moderate, he drinks the heist.

Summer: in Sicily, Denys de Syracuse begins the siege of the sicle city of Herbessos. The Syrian citizens rebelled and united with the refugees in Etna. Denys rushes to Ortygie. He recruited Campanian mercenaries who defeated his opponents (winter 404/403). Denys, assured of the obedience of the Syracusans, devotes himself to the restoration of his authority over eastern Sicily. Catania and Naxos, delivered