365 BC
Year 365 BC was a year of the [Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aventinensis and Ahala. The denomination 365 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
- Perdiccas III of Macedon, son of Amyntas III and Eurydice II, kills Ptolemy of Aloros, who has been the regent of Macedon since he arranged the assassination of Perdiccas III's brother Alexander II in 368 BC. With Ptolemy's death, Perdiccas III becomes King of Macedon in his own right.
- The Athenian forces under general Timotheus overrun Samos, then occupied by a Persian garrison, after a 10-month siege.
Roman Republic
Deaths
- Marcus Furius Camillus, Roman soldier and statesman.
- Eurydice II, Macedonian queen and mother of Philip II of Macedon
- Antisthenes, Athenian philosopher