Year 377 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar

Roman calendar

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. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Mamercinus, Poplicola, Cicurinus, Rufus (or Praetextatus), Cincinnatus and Cincinnatus (or, less frequently, year 377 Ab urbe condita

Ab urbe condita

Ab urbe condita is Latin for "from the founding of the City ", traditionally set in 753 BC. AUC is a year-numbering system used by some ancient Roman historians to identify particular Roman years...

). The denomination 377 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini

Anno Domini

and Before Christ are designations used to label or number years used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars....

 calendar era

Calendar era

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 became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Persian Empire

• Mausolus
  Mausolus
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   is appointed
  Appointment
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   as the Persian
  Achaemenid Empire
  The Achaemenid Empire , sometimes known as First Persian Empire and/or Persian Empire, was founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great who overthrew the Median confederation...
  
   satrap
  Satrap
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   of Caria
  Caria
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  .

Greece

• Timotheus
  Timotheus
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   wins over the Acarnania
  Acarnania
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  ns and Molossians as friends of Athens.
• Athens, in preparing for participation in the Sparta
  Sparta
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  n-Theban struggle, reorganises its finances and its taxation, inaugurating a system whereby the richer citizens are responsible for the collection of taxes
  Tax
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   from the less rich.
• The Peace of Antalcidas
  Peace of Antalcidas
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   (387 BC
  387 BC
  Year 387 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Papirius, Fidenas, Mamercinus, Lanatus and Poplicola...
  
  ), includes a clause guaranteeing the Greek cities their independence. The Spartan King Agesilaus II
  Agesilaus II
  Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, "as good as thought commander and king of all Greece," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his...
  
  uses this clause as an excuse to force the dissolution of Thebes' Boeotian League. In two sieges, he reduces Thebes to near starvation.