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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades: 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC – 400s BC – 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC
Years: 410 BC 409 BC 408 BC – 407 BC – 406 BC 405 BC 404 BC
407 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Ab urbe condita 347
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2250 – -2249
Bengali calendar -999
Berber calendar 544
Buddhist calendar 138
Burmese calendar -1044
Byzantine calendar 5102 – 5103
Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2230/2290)
— to —
甲年(2231/2291)
Coptic calendar -690 – -689
Ethiopian calendar -414 – -413
Hebrew calendar 3354 – 3355
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat -351 – -350
- Shaka Samvat N/A
- Kali Yuga 2695 – 2696
Holocene calendar 9594
Iranian calendar 1028 BP – 1027 BP
Islamic calendar 1060 BH – 1059 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 1927
Thai solar calendar 137
Year 407 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Medullinus, Vibulanus, Volusus and Ahala (or, less frequently, year 347 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 407 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
- Thrasybulus recaptures Abdera and Thasos.
- The Spartan admiral Lysander refuses to be lured out of Ephesus to do battle with Alcibiades. However, while Alcibiades is away seeking supplies, the Athenian squadron is placed under the command of Antiochus, his helmsman, who is routed by the Spartan fleet (with the help of the Persians under Cyrus) in the Battle of Notium (or Ephesus).
- The defeat gives the enemies of Alcibiades an excuse to strip him of his command. He never returns again to Athens. He sails north to land he owned in the Thracian Chersonese. Except for a brief appearance at Aegospotami, Alcibiades' involvement in the Peloponnesian War is over.
Sicily
- The exiled former leader of the moderate democrats of Syracuse, Hermocrates, is killed while attempting to force his way back into Syracuse.
Births
- Speusippus, Greek philosopher (d. 339 BC)
Deaths
- Hermocrates, leader of the moderate democrats of Syracuse