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When and where was the Battle of Chaeronea fought?

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Philip II Bust, tentatively identified as Philip II of Macedonia, mid-4th century bce; in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in August 338 BCE in Boeotia, a region in central Greece. The engagement took place near the ancient town of Chaeronea (the site of the modern town of Khairónia), where Philip II of Macedonia defeated a coalition of Greek city-states, primarily Athens and Thebes.12