401 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
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401 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar401 BC
CD BC
Ab urbe condita353
Ancient Egypt eraXXVIII dynasty, 4
- PharaohAmyrtaeus, 4
Ancient Greek era94th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4350
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−993
Berber calendar550
Buddhist calendar144
Burmese calendar−1038
Byzantine calendar5108–5109
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
2296 or 2236
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
2297 or 2237
Coptic calendar−684 – −683
Discordian calendar766
Ethiopian calendar−408 – −407
Hebrew calendar3360–3361
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−344 – −343
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2700–2701
Holocene calendar9600
Iranian calendar1022 BP – 1021 BP
Islamic calendar1053 BH – 1052 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1933
Minguo calendar2312 before ROC
民前2312年
Nanakshahi calendar−1868
Thai solar calendar142–143
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
−274 or −655 or −1427
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
−273 or −654 or −1426

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.

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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 15,220 men, of whom 10,400 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 satrap of Lydia, Tissaphernes, has Clearchus of Sparta and the other senior Greek captains captured and executed.
  • 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.

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