User:Chaleyer61/Sandbox

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Centuries:	6th century BC · 5th century BC · 4th century BC
Decades:	480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC
Years:	462 BC 461 BC 460 BC 459 BC 458 BC 457 BC 456 BC

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Persian empire

• Ezra assembles and leads a band of approximately 5,000 Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem.

[edit] Greece

• Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta.
• 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. Aegina is then attacked and besieged by the Athenian forces.

[edit] Italy

• The Sicilian town of Morgantina is destroyed by Ducetius, hellenised leader of the Siculi (according to Diodoros Siculus).

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Pleistarchus, King of Sparta.