353 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	380s BC  370s BC  360s BC  – 350s BC –  340s BC  330s BC  320s BC
Years:	356 BC 355 BC 354 BC – 353 BC – 352 BC 351 BC 350 BC

353 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

353 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	353 BC
Ab urbe condita	401
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4398
Bahá'í calendar	-2196–-2195
Bengali calendar	-945
Berber calendar	598
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	192
Burmese calendar	-990
Byzantine calendar	5156–5157
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (2284/2344) — to — 戊辰年 (2285/2345)
Coptic calendar	-636–-635
Ethiopian calendar	-360–-359
Hebrew calendar	3408–3409
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-296–-295
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2749–2750
Holocene calendar	9648
Iranian calendar	974 BP – 973 BP
Islamic calendar	1004 BH – 1003 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1981
Minguo calendar	2264 before ROC 民前2264年
Thai solar calendar	191

Year 353 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Peticus and Poplicola (or, less frequently, year 401 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 353 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

• Mausolus, King and Persian satrap of Caria, dies and is succeeded in 352 BC by Artemisia, his sister and wife.

Greece

• The Phocians threaten Thessaly to their north. Philip II of Macedon sees his opportunity to penetrate south.
• Clearchus, the tyrant of Heraclea, a Greek city on the Black Sea, is murdered by some of the city's citizens led by Chion after a reign of twelve years. Most of the conspirators are killed by the tyrant's body-guards upon the spot, while others are captured and put to death. Within a short time, the city falls under the rule of the new tyrant Satyrus, Clearchus' brother.

Deaths

• Clearchus of Heraclea, tyrant of Heraclea Pontica (assassinated) (b. c. 401 BC)
• Iphicrates, Athenian general (b. c. 418 BC)
• Mausolus, King and Persian satrap of Caria