-387

This page relates to the year -387 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

the Perses occupy Clazomènes and Samos (fine in -366).
the fleet of Sparte controls the road of the thrace corn; difficulty “provisioning with Athens.
Beginning of the negotiations between Antalcidas, general Spartan and the satrap Perse Tiribaze which will bring the following year the peace of Antalcidas or “Paix of the king”.

Syracuse occupies Rhêgion (fine in -351).
Denys of Syracuse founds a colony with Lissos, in It southernmost.
Denys undertakes the construction of a system of gigantic fortifications with Syracuse, completed in -385.

With Rome, Consul At of consular Powerful orators: T. Quintius Cincinnatus, Q. Servilius Fidenas V, L. Julius Iullus, L. Aquilius Corvus, L. Lucretius Trecipitinus, Servius Sulpicius Rufus.
the Gaulois under the command of Brennus crush the Romains (or -388).
Camille makes rebuild Rome after its destruction by the Gallic ones. It reorganizes the army and reforms the administration.
Reconquest of the southernmost Etrurie and final annexation by Rome.
Lex Canuleia : Abolition of the prohibition of the marriages between patricians and plebeian (see War of the orders).

the military reforms allotted to Camille bring major transformations to the Roman Légion: it are divided from now on into three definitely differentiated lines ( Hastati, Principes, Triarii ), and each one of these lines in handle and Centurie S of variable manpower according to the category: ten handle of one hundred twenty men and twenty centuries of sixty for the first two lines, ten handle of sixty men and twenty centuries of thirty for the third. The Vélites or light troops recruited in the fourth and fifth classes do not constitute a homogeneous body but are distributed in the three lines of heavy infantry, at a rate of twenty per centuries. The armament is modified: the whole of the heavy infantry carries from now on the same defensive weapons (helmet, armor, square shield). As offensive weapons the first two lines have the Pilum, arms with feature with wood pole fixed of a sharpened iron, the triarii the lance. The vélites are armed with a leather helmet, a short sword, a small shield and some light javelins.

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