450 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
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450 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar450 BC
CDL BC
Ab urbe condita304
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 76
- PharaohArtaxerxes I of Persia, 16
Ancient Greek era82nd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4301
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1042
Berber calendar501
Buddhist calendar95
Burmese calendar−1087
Byzantine calendar5059–5060
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
2248 or 2041
    — to —
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
2249 or 2042
Coptic calendar−733 – −732
Discordian calendar717
Ethiopian calendar−457 – −456
Hebrew calendar3311–3312
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−393 – −392
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2651–2652
Holocene calendar9551
Iranian calendar1071 BP – 1070 BP
Islamic calendar1104 BH – 1103 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1884
Minguo calendar2361 before ROC
民前2361年
Nanakshahi calendar−1917
Thai solar calendar93–94
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
−323 or −704 or −1476
    — to —
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
−322 or −703 or −1475
Greek colonies in the northern part of the Black Sea in 450 BC.

Year 450 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Second year of the decemviri (or, less frequently, year 304 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 450 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Greece[edit]

  • Athenian general Cimon sails to Cyprus with two hundred triremes of the Delian League. From there, he sends sixty ships to Egypt to help the Egyptians under Amyrtaeus, who are fighting the Persians in the Nile Delta. Cimon uses the remaining ships to aid an uprising of the Cypriot Greek city-states against Persian control of the island. He lays siege to the Persian stronghold of Citium on the southern west coast of Cyprus. However, the siege fails and Cyprus remains under Phoenician (and Persian) control.
  • During the siege Cimon dies and command of the fleet is given to Anaxicrates, who leaves Citium to engage the Phoenician fleet in the Battle of Salamis in Cyprus. The Greek fleet is victorious against the Persians and their allies and then returns to Athens.
  • The Athenians reduce the tribute due from their subject city-states (i.e. members of the Delian League), and each city is allowed to issue its own coinage.
  • 5,000 talents are transferred to the treasury of the Delian League in Athens.

Macedonia[edit]

Roman Republic[edit]

  • The success of the first Decemvirate prompts the appointment of a second Decemvirate which also includes plebeians amongst its members. This second decemviri adds two more headings to their predecessor's ten, completing the Law of the Twelve Tables (Lex Duodecim Tabularum), which will form the centrepiece of Roman law for the next several centuries. Nevertheless, this Decemvirate's rule becomes increasingly violent and tyrannical.

Sicily[edit]

  • After minor preliminary successes (including the capture of Inessa from its Greek colonists), Ducetius, a Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, is decisively defeated by the combined forces of Syracuse and Acragas. Ducetius flees to exile in Corinth.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Alcibiades - Athenian politician and general". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  2. ^ Platnauer, Maurice; Taplin, Oliver (January 19, 2024). "Aristophanes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 24, 2024.