359 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:	362 BC 361 BC 360 BC – 359 BC – 358 BC 357 BC 356 BC

359 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

359 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	359 BC
Ab urbe condita	395
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4392
Bahá'í calendar	-2202–-2201
Bengali calendar	-951
Berber calendar	592
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	186
Burmese calendar	-996
Byzantine calendar	5150–5151
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (2278/2338) — to — 壬戌年 (2279/2339)
Coptic calendar	-642–-641
Ethiopian calendar	-366–-365
Hebrew calendar	3402–3403
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-302–-301
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2743–2744
Holocene calendar	9642
Iranian calendar	980 BP – 979 BP
Islamic calendar	1010 BH – 1009 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1975
Minguo calendar	2270 before ROC 民前2270年
Thai solar calendar	185

Year 359 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laenas and Imperiosus (or, less frequently, year 395 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 359 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

Macedonia

• The Macedonian King Perdiccas III is killed while defending his country against an Illyrian attack led by King Bardylis. He is succeeded by his infant son, Amyntas IV. The child's uncle, Philip II, assumes the regency.
• In the same year, Philip II declares himself king of Macedonia. Amyntas IV is not judged by Philip II to be a danger and remains alive while Philip II is King of Macedonia.
• The Illyrians prepare to close in, the Paeonians raid from the north and two claimants to the Macedonian throne are supported by foreign powers. Philip II buys off his dangerous neighbours and, with a treaty, cedes Amphipolis to Athens.

Births

• Philip III of Macedon, brother and successor of Alexander the Great (approximate date) (d. 317 BC)

Deaths

• Perdiccas III, king of Macedonia