409 BC

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Year of The Water Monkey壬申( at the beginning of the year metal sheep辛未)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Greek - Punic War

• Carthage conquered and destroyed Selinus and Himera in Sicily.

Peloponnesian War

• Struggle to Megara
• Battle of Abydos
• Battle of Ephesus

Culture

• The drama Philoctetes of Sophocles is listed first.

Born

• Dion of Syracuse, Greek politicians in Sicily († 354 BC)

• Year ( 5th century BC)
• 409 BC