General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Births: Mencius the Confucian disciple in China (372-370 BC)
- Entertainment: Xenophon writes "Anabasis" (371 BC)
- Warfare: General Mediterranean peace conference (371 BC)
- Deaths: Hippocrates the Greek physician (377 BC),
Democritus the creator of atomic theory (370 BC)
Europe
- Greece: Massacre of Spartan tyrants at Thebes by Pelopidas and Epaminondas (379 BC)
Seismic sea wave inundates Helike, Greece (375 BC)
Earthquake and tsunami - possibly Atlantis myth buying Minoan towns (373 BC)
End of the Peace of Nicias between Athens and Sparta (371 BC)
Thebans defeat Sparta at Battle of Leucrea (371 BC)
Spartans defeated with Greek victory of Epaminodas (371 BC)
Thebes forms the Arcadian League against Sparta to 362 BC (370 BC)
- Italian States: City walls around Rome built