456 BC

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Year of the Wood Rooster乙酉( at the beginning of the year Wood Monkey甲申)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• The Persian Great King Artaxerxes I sent Megabyzos II and I. Artabazus to quell the uprising in Egypt Inaros II

Religion and Culture

• 456 or 457 BC: The Temple of Zeus at Olympia is completed.

Died

• Aeschylus, Greek poet

• Year ( 5th century BC)
• 456 BC