430s BC
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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades: 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC
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[edit] Events and trends
- 439 BC - Cincinnatus again became dictator of the Roman Republic, during which he defeated the Volsci.
- 439 BC - According to legend, Gaius Servilius Ahala saves Rome from Spurius Maelius.
- 438 BC - Ictinus and Callicrates finish construction of the Parthenon, located on Athens' Acropolis.
- 435 BC - The Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Phidias, one of the seven wonders of the world, is completed.
- 434 BC - Conflict occurs between the Greek island of Kerkyra and its mother-city Corinth.
- 434 BC - Anaxagoras tries to square the circle with straightedge and compass.
- 433 BC - Battle of Sybota between Corcyra and Corinth.
- 433 BC (or later) - Burial of Marquis Yi of Zeng in China.
- 432 BC - Meton introduces a 19-year cycle metonic cycle into Athens synchronizing the lunar and solar calendars.
- 432 BC - Athens defeats Corinth in the battle of Potidaea.
- 432 BC - The Greek colony of Heraclea is founded by Tarentum and Thurii.
- 431 BC - The Peloponnesian War begins between Sparta and Athens and their allies.
- 431 BC - Defeat of the Aequians by the Romans under the dictator A. Postumius Tubertus.
- 431 BC - The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humors: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief which dominates medical thinking for centuries.
- 430 BC - Athens suffers a major pestilence, believed to be caused by epidemic typhus.
- c. 430 BC - First performance of Sophocles's Oedipus the King.
[edit] Births
- 436 BC - Isocrates, Athenian orator.
- 436 BC - Artaxerxes II, king of Persia (approximate date).
- 435 BC - Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (+ 380 BC).
- 432 BC - Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse (+ 367 BC) (approximate date).
[edit] Deaths
- 437 BC - Volumnius, Etruscan ruler (dead in Veii)..
- 430 BC - Empedocles, Greek philosopher (estimated date).
- 430 BC - Phidias, Greek sculptor (estimated date).
- 430 BC - Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (estimated date).
