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Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Mediterranean
- Kaeso Fabius Vibulanus from the patrician family of the Fabians is Consul of the Roman Republic.
- Xerxes I. knocks down the uprising of the Egyptians under Psamtik IV against the Persian suzerainty and sets Achaemenes as a satrap.
- The Athenian politician Xanthippos is - probably because of his opposition to the naval policy of Themistocles - banished by ostracism from the city.
- The Roman Republic conquered the main settlement area of the Aequians.
Imperial China
- Time of the Spring and Autumn Annals: Confucius is called back to his 13-year wanderings to Lu.
Sports
- Astylos of Croton is the first known athlete of antiquity, of turning its back on his hometown. In the Olympics, he can proclaim himself as a member of Syracuse, after which his statue is destroyed in Croton.
Born
- (um): Achaeus from Eretria, Greek tragedians