429 BC
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Year of the Earth Rat壬子( at the beginning of the year Metal Pig辛亥)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Peloponnesian War: The Siege of Plataea by Sparta begins.
- Battle of Spartolus
- Battle of Stratos
- Battle of Naupaktos
Culture
- By 429 BC: Sophocles begins with processing of the substance of King Oedipus.
Disasters
- In Athens still rages which erupted last year Athenian plague, probably a variant of the plague, which falls victims, including Pericles.
Born
- By 429 BC: Atheas, king of the Scythians
Died
- September Lampon, Greek soothsayer (c. 490 BC)
- September: Pericles, the Athenian politician (c. 490 BC)
- Xenophon, an Athenian commander (c. 480 BC)