430s BC

This article concerns the period 439 BC – 430 BC.

439 BC

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By place

Greece

• As a result of Persian assistance to Samos, it takes the Athenian army nine months to successfully complete its siege of Samos and force the Samians to surrender. Samos becomes a tributary of Athens.^[1]

Roman Republic

• Spurius Maelius, a wealthy Roman plebeian, tries to buy popular support with the aim of making himself king. During the severe famine affecting Rome, he buys up a large store of grain and sells it at a low price to the people of Rome – the first time this had been done in Rome. This leads Lucius Minucius, the patrician praefectus annonae ("president of the market"), to accuse Maelius of seeking to take over the government.^[2]
• Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is made dictator of the Roman Republic for a second time to deal with the Maelius controversy. He appoints Gaius Servilius Ahala as his Master of the Horse.^[3]

• Maelius is summoned before Cincinnatus but refuses to appear. Shortly thereafter, Maelius is killed by Gaius Servilius Ahala and his house is burnt to the ground.^[4][5]

Births

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436 BC

• Isocrates, Athenian orator (d. 338 BC)
• Artaxerxes II, king of Persia (approximate date) (d. 358 BC)

435 BC

• Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC)

432 BC

• Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 367 BC) (approximate birth date)

431 BC

• Xenophon, Athenian Greek mercenary and writer (d. c. 354 BC)

Deaths

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439 BC

• Spurius Maelius - was the youngest man to ever attempt taking over Rome

438 BC

• Cincinnatus, Roman politician, consul and dictator (b. 519 BC)^[15]

436 BC

• Zengcius, Chinese philosopher (b. 505 BC)^[16]

434 BC

• Duke Jing of Jin

433 BC

• Zeng Hou Yi, marquis of the state of Zeng, subordinate to Chu

431 BC

• Phidias returns to Athens, where he is imprisoned (for having been portrayed on the shield of the statue of the goddess Athena) and dies before the trial.

430 BC

• Empedocles, Greek philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 490 BC)
• Phidias, Greek sculptor (approximate date) (b. c. 480 BC)
• Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 490 BC)