368 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	390s BC 380s BC 370s BC – 360s BC – 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC
Years:	371 BC 370 BC 369 BC – 368 BC – 367 BC 366 BC 365 BC

368 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

368 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	368 BC
Ab urbe condita	386
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4383
Bahá'í calendar	-2211–-2210
Bengali calendar	-960
Berber calendar	583
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	177
Burmese calendar	-1005
Byzantine calendar	5141–5142
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (2269/2329) — to — 癸丑年 (2270/2330)
Coptic calendar	-651–-650
Ethiopian calendar	-375–-374
Hebrew calendar	3393–3394
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-311–-310
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2734–2735
Holocene calendar	9633
Iranian calendar	989 BP – 988 BP
Islamic calendar	1019 BH – 1018 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1966
Minguo calendar	2279 before ROC 民前2279年
Thai solar calendar	176

Year 368 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Cornelius, Praetextatus, Structus, Capitolinus, Crassus and Cicurinus (or, less frequently, year 386 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 368 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

Greece

While the previous year's intervention by the Macedonians in Thessaly is successful, after the Macedonian troops withdraw, Alexander of Pherae treats his subjects as cruelly as before. So the Thessalians seek Thebes' support. Pelopidas is sent to their assistance, but is treacherously seized and imprisoned.
In response, Epaminondas is reinstated in command of Theban troops and leads the Theban army into Thessaly, where he out-manoeuvres the Thessalians and secures the release of Pelopidas without a fight.
At the instigation of Alexander's brother-in-law, Ptolemy of Aloros, Alexander II of Macedon is assassinated during a festival. Although Alexander's brother, Perdiccas III becomes the next king, he is under age, and Ptolemy is appointed regent.

China

Zhou Xian Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

By topic

Philosophy

Plato's Republic is completed. It lays down the rules for an ideal, righteous society and suggests that kings ought to be philosophers (or at least taught by philosophers).

Births

Deaths

Alexander II, King of Macedonia (assassinated)