History
 

469 - 460 B.C.

Generations

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World

General

Population: About 162 million*
  • Births: Greek physician Hippocrates (460 BC)
  • Entertainment: Sophocles introduces third actor into plays and wins contest over Aeschylus (468 BC)
    Aeschylus writes "Prometheus Bound" (460 BC)
  • Medicine: Era of Hippocrates of Greece (460 BC)
  • Warfare: Thucydides writes about war from a general's view (460 BC)
  • Deaths: Simonides of Keos the poet (468 BC), Persian ruler Xerxes (465 BC), Dramatist Aeschylus (465 BC), Greek philosopher Democritus (460 BC)

Africa

  • Egypt: Egyptians rebel against Persian rule (460 BC)

Europe

  • Greece: Democracy in Syracuse (465 BC)
    Terrible earthquake destroys Sparta and Laconia (465 BC)
    Quake leads to helot uprising and strained relations between Sparta and Athens leading to Peloponnesian War (464 BC)
    Democratic institutions completed in Athens (462 BC)
    Cimon banished (462 BC)
    Soldiers and judges of Athens receive salaries (462 BC)
    War between Athens and Sparta (461 BC)
    Era of Pericles begins in Athens when elected party head and governor (462-460 BC)
    Temple of Zeus built in Olympia (460 BC)

Middle East

  • Persia: Army and navy destroyed in Battle of Eurymedon (466 BC)
    Xerxes assassinated and Artaxerxes rules to 424 BC (465 BC)



 
 
 
 
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