337 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	360s BC  350s BC  340s BC  – 330s BC –  320s BC  310s BC  300s BC
Years:	340 BC 339 BC 338 BC – 337 BC – 336 BC 335 BC 334 BC

337 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	337 BC
Ab urbe condita	417
Ancient Egypt era	XXXI dynasty, 7
- Pharaoh	Arses of Persia, 2
Ancient Greek era	110th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4414
Bengali calendar	−929
Berber calendar	614
Buddhist calendar	208
Burmese calendar	−974
Byzantine calendar	5172–5173
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 2360 or 2300     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2361 or 2301
Coptic calendar	−620 – −619
Discordian calendar	830
Ethiopian calendar	−344 – −343
Hebrew calendar	3424–3425
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−280 – −279
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2765–2766
Holocene calendar	9664
Iranian calendar	958 BP – 957 BP
Islamic calendar	987 BH – 986 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1997
Minguo calendar	2248 before ROC 民前2248年
Thai solar calendar	206–207

Year 337 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Longus and Paetus (or, less frequently, year 417 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 337 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

• At a Pan-Hellenic Conference in Corinth, Philip II of Macedon announces the formation of the League of Corinth to liberate the Greek cities of Asia Minor from Persian rule, ostensibly because the Persian King, Arses, refuses to make reparations to Philip for Artaxerxes III's aid to the city of Perinthus when it was resisting Philip. All the Greek cities (except Sparta) and the Greek islands swear their support to the league and to recognise Philip as president of the League. Philip establishes a council of representatives from all the Greek states, which is empowered to deliberate and decide on the actions to be taken. However, the real power lies with Philip who is declared commander of the League's army.
• Olympias is put aside by her husband Philip II, following Philip's marriage to a girl named Cleopatra (who is renamed Eurydice). Their son, Alexander, is effectively disowned by Philip's actions. Philip II has Ptolemy, along with other companions of his son, exiled.

Roman Republic

• A plebeian is chosen to be praetor of Rome for the first time.

Births

• Demetrius I Poliorcetes ("Besieger"), Antigonid dynasty king of Macedon (d. 283 BC)

Deaths

• Timoleon, Greek statesman and general (b. c. 411 BC)
• Shen Pu-hai, Chinese bureaucrat, chief minister of Han

References