430s BC

430s BC
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Millennia:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades:	460s BC 450s BC 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC
Years:	439 BC 438 BC 437 BC 436 BC 435 BC 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC 431 BC 430 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

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.
430s BC — 405 BC — Mnesikles builds Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens.

Births

436 BC — Isocrates, Athenian orator
c. 436 BC — Artaxerxes II, king of Persia
435 BC — Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC)
c. 432 BC — Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 367 BC)

Deaths

437 BC — Volumnius, Etruscan ruler (d. in Veii)
c. 430 BC — Empedocles, Greek philosopher
c. 430 BC — Phidias, Greek sculptor
c. 430 BC — Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher
c. 430 BC - Myron of Eleutherae,Boetia,Greece, sculptor.

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