389 BC

Year 389 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Poplicola, Capitolinus, Esquilinus, Mamercinus, Cornelius and Albinus (or, less frequently, year 365 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 389 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC
Years:	392 BC 391 BC 390 BC 389 BC 388 BC 387 BC 386 BC

389 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	389 BC CCCLXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	365
Ancient Egypt era	XXIX dynasty, 10
- Pharaoh	Hakor, 5
Ancient Greek era	97th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4362
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−981
Berber calendar	562
Buddhist calendar	156
Burmese calendar	−1026
Byzantine calendar	5120–5121
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2309 or 2102     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2310 or 2103
Coptic calendar	−672 – −671
Discordian calendar	778
Ethiopian calendar	−396 – −395
Hebrew calendar	3372–3373
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−332 – −331
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2712–2713
Holocene calendar	9612
Iranian calendar	1010 BP – 1009 BP
Islamic calendar	1041 BH – 1040 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1945
Minguo calendar	2300 before ROC 民前2300年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1856
Thai solar calendar	154–155
Tibetan calendar	阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) −262 or −643 or −1415     — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) −261 or −642 or −1414

Marble bust of Aeschines (390–314 BC)

Events

By place

Greece

• A Spartan expeditionary force under King Agesilaus II crosses the Gulf of Corinth to attack Acarnania, an ally of the anti-Spartan coalition. Agesilaus is eventually able to draw them into a pitched battle, in which the Acarnanians are routed.
• The Athenian general, Thrasybulus, leads a force of triremes to levy tribute from cities around the Aegean and support Rhodes, where a democratic government is struggling against Sparta. On this campaign, Thrasybulus captures Byzantium, imposes a duty on ships passing through the Hellespont, and collects tribute from many of the Aegean Islands.
• Due to threats of attack from Akarnania, Kalydon garrisons the Achaeans.
• The orator Isaeus gives his earliest known speech, the Dicaeogenes.

Magna Grecia

• Battle of the Elleporus and the capture of Kroton by Dionysius I of Syracuse

China

• Wu Qi, the prime minister of the State of Chu, enacts his first series of political, municipal, and martial reforms. Wu Qi gains the ire and distrust of Chu officials and aristocratic elite who are against his crusades to sweep up corruption in the state and limit their power. He is eventually assassinated in 381 BC at the funeral of King Diao of Chu, although his assassins are executed shortly after by the newly enthroned King Su of Chu.
• This is the latest possible date for the compilation of the historical text Zuo Zhuan, attributed to a blind historian known as Zuo Qiuming.

Births

• Aeschines, Greek statesman and orator (d. 314 BC)