The world in 343 BC — what happened that year

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

What happened

Southern Europe (7)

• In the second battle the Campanian army is beaten and driven back inside its walls (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 7.29)
• Rome resolves to send envoys to the Samnites on the point of honor that those who surrendered cannot be abandoned (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 7.31)
• The fighting lasted long and there was great slaughter around the Samnite standards, yet nowhere did they flee (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 7.33)
• Cornelius is trapped in a defile and Decius proposes taking a detachment and seizing the high ground (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 7.34)
• The Samnites flee in haste, abandoning more than 40,000 shields (Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 7.37)
• After taking Messana he marches on Syracuse (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Timoleon 20)
• Philip summons Aristotle to teach Alexander (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Alexander 7)

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