430 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:	433 BC · 432 BC · 431 BC · 430 BC · 429 BC · 428 BC · 427 BC

430 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	430 BC CDXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	324
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 96
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 36
Ancient Greek era	87th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4321
Bengali calendar	−1022
Berber calendar	521
Buddhist calendar	115
Burmese calendar	−1067
Byzantine calendar	5079–5080
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2267 or 2207     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2268 or 2208
Coptic calendar	−713 – −712
Discordian calendar	737
Ethiopian calendar	−437 – −436
Hebrew calendar	3331–3332
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−373 – −372
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2671–2672
Holocene calendar	9571
Iranian calendar	1051 BP – 1050 BP
Islamic calendar	1083 BH – 1082 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1904
Minguo calendar	2341 before ROC 民前2341年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1897
Thai solar calendar	113–114

Year 430 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Iullus (or, less frequently, year 324 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 430 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Greece

• The army of Sparta loots Attica for a second time, but Pericles is not daunted and refuses to revise his initial strategy. Unwilling to engage the Spartan army in battle, he again leads a naval expedition to plunder the coasts of the Peloponnesus, this time taking 100 Athenian ships with him.
• Potidaea finally capitulates to the siege by Athenian forces in the winter.
• An outbreak of a plague hits Athens and the disease ravages the densely packed city (modern DNA analyses of material from ancient cemeteries suggest the mortal disease may have been typhus). The plague wipes out over 30,000 citizens, sailors and soldiers as well as Pericles' two sons. Roughly one quarter of the Athenian population dies. The fear of plague is so widespread that the Spartan invasion of Attica is abandoned, their troops being unwilling to risk contact with the diseased enemy.
• Pericles becomes ill from the plague but he recovers, temporarily. He is deposed from his position as General (or Strategos), but is later reappointed.

By topic

Art

• Polyclitus completes one of his greatest statues, the Diadumenos (Diadem-bearer).

Oedipus the king was first performed in Athens

Births

• Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates (d. 354 BC)

Deaths

• Empedocles, Greek philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 490 BC)
• Phidias, Greek sculptor (approximate date) (b. c. 480 BC)
• Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 490 BC)

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