424 BC

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Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Italy

  • The Samnites conquered Capua.

Greece

  • Peloponnesian War: The allied with Sparta defeated Athens in Boeotia under Pagondas the battle of Delion.
  • In the battle for Megara Athens succeeds in conquering the harbor Nikaia, but not the conquest of the city of Megara itself

Persian Empire

  • December: Xerxes II, after the death of his father Artaxerxes the Great King of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

Culture

  • The comedy Hippeis ( The Knights ) by Aristophanes, with mocking the aspiring poets the " doyen " of comedy Cratinus is, premiered at the Lenaea and wins the first prize.

Nature and Environment

  • Lunar Eclipse on 28-29. September 424 BC

Sports

  • Dorieus, son of Diagoras of Rhodes wins for the third time the pankration at the Olympic Games and is thus once again Periodonike.

Died

  • Hippocrates, Athenian strategist
  • December: Artaxerxes, the Persian Great King of Achemänidenreiches
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