430s BC

Events

439 BC

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.

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.
• Maelius is summoned before Cincinnatus (who has again become dictator of the Roman Republic, to put down a revolt by the plebeians), but refuses to appear. Shortly thereafter, Maelius is killed by Gaius Servilius Ahala and his house is burnt to the ground.

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Births

• 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 (approximate date) (d. 367 BC)

Deaths

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

References