450s BC
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This article concerns the period 459 BC – 450 BC.
Events
459 BC
By place
Persian Empire
- The Jewish priest Ezra assembles and leads a band of approximately 5,000 Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Greece
- Athens allies itself with the city state of Megara which is under pressure from Corinth. This alliance leads to war between Corinth and Athens. The first battle of the war, at Haliesis in the Gulf of Argolis, results in a Corinthian victory, but the next battle, at Cecryphalea (modern Angistrion), goes Athens' way.
Roman Republic
- The Aequi occupy Tusculum. In response to the threat, the Roman Senate decide to send an army to help the allied city, under the command of consul Lucius Cornelius Maluginensis. In addition, the consul Fabius Vibulanus, who was at that point besieging Antium, moves his forces to attack Tusculum. The Tusculans are able to recapture their city. A truce is then arranged with the Aequi.
Sicily
- The Sicilian town of Morgantina is destroyed by Ducetius, hellenised leader of the Siculi (according to Diodorus Siculus).
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Births
- 450 BC – Alcibiades, Athenian general and politician (approximate date) (d. c. 404 BC)
Deaths
- 459 BC
- Pleistarchus, King of Sparta
- Themistocles, Athenian politician
- 456 BC – Aeschylus, Greek playwright (b. 525 BC)
- 451 BC – Verginia, legendary victim of the decemviri
- 450 BC