The world in 338 BC — what happened that year

6 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

Battle of Chaeronea: Philip faced the combined army of Athens and Thebes. (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 16.88.3)
During the battle a sortie by the townspeople is repulsed and Pedum is taken by assault (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 8.13)
He campaigns into Leontini territory and captures Hicetas (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Timoleon 32)
At Catana he defeats Mamercus in a battle near the river Abolus (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Timoleon 34)
At the battle of Chaeronea, Alexander is the first to break the Sacred Band (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Alexander 9)
A passage around the time of Chaeronea (it mentions the river Thermodon being at Plutarch's native Chaeronea) (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Demosthenes 19)