428 BC
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Year of the Water Buffalo癸丑( at the beginning of the year, water - rat壬子)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Siege of Plataea in the Peloponnesian War
Culture
- Euripides' tragedy The crowned Hippolytus is first performed at the Dionysia there and wins the first prize.
Disasters
- In Athens, the Athenian plague rages still.
Sports
- Dorieus, son of Diagoras of Rhodes wins, for the second time the pankration at the Olympic Games and is thus once again Periodonike.
Born
- (or 427 BC) Plato, Greek philosopher
Died
- Anaxagoras, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
- Phormio, Athenian strategist
- (um): Lars Tolumnius, Etruscan king