426 BC

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Year of the Hare wood乙卯( at the beginning of the year Holztiger甲寅)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Peloponnesian War: In the Battle of Olpai Athens victorious over Sparta.
  • In the Second Battle of Tanagra Athens victorious over the allied troops Sparta Thebes.

Culture

Disasters

  • An earthquake in the Gulf of Euboea devastated in summer the coasts of the Gulf of Malia and the Northern Gulf of Evia in Greece. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that flooded the coasts and cities. The intensity of the earthquake is estimated from the historical tradition of damage descriptions to XI after the MSK scale.
  • The raging since 430 BC in Athens Attic epidemic subsides at last.

Born

  • (um): Xenophon, an Athenian writer, politician and military leader
  • Year ( 5th century BC)
  • 426 BC
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