430s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	460s BC 450s BC 440s BC – 430s BC – 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC
Years:	439 BC 438 BC 437 BC 436 BC 435 BC 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC 431 BC 430 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

439 BC—Cincinnatus again became dictator of the Roman Republic, during which he defeated the Volsci.
439 BC—According to legend, Gaius Servilius Ahala saves Rome from Spurius Maelius.
438 BC—Ictinus and Callicrates finish construction of the Parthenon, located on Athens' Acropolis.
435 BC—The Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Phidias, one of the seven wonders of the world, is completed.
434 BC—Conflict occurs between the Greek island of Kerkyra and its mother-city Corinth.
434 BC—Anaxagoras tries to square the circle with straightedge and compass.
433 BC—Battle of Sybota between Corcyra and Corinth.
433 BC (or later)—Burial of Marquis Yi of Zeng in China.
432 BC—Meton introduces a 19-year cycle metonic cycle into Athens synchronizing the lunar and solar calendars.
432 BC—Athens defeats Corinth in the battle of Potidaea.
432 BC—The Greek colony of Heraclea is founded by Tarentum and Thurii.
431 BC—The Peloponnesian War begins between Sparta and Athens and their allies.
431 BC—Defeat of the Aequians by the Romans under the dictator A. Postumius Tubertus.
431 BC—The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humors: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief which dominates medical thinking for centuries.
430 BC—Athens suffers a major pestilence, believed to be caused by epidemic typhus.
c. 430 BC—First performance of Sophocles's Oedipus the King.
430s BC—405 BC—Mnesikles builds Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens.

Births

436 BC—Isocrates, Athenian orator (d. 338 BC)
c. 436 BC—Artaxerxes II, king of Persia (d. 358 BC)
435 BC—Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC)
c. 432 BC—Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 367 BC)

Deaths

437 BC—Volumnius, Etruscan ruler (d. in Veii)
c. 430 BC—Empedocles, Greek philosopher (b. c. 490 BC)
c. 430 BC—Phidias, Greek sculptor (b. c. 480 BC)
c. 430 BC—Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (b. c. 490 BC)
c. 430 BC—Myron of Eleutherae, Boetia, Greece, sculptor