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Year of The Water Horse壬午( at the beginning of the year metal snake辛巳)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Quintus Fabius Vibulanus is the third time consul of the Roman Republic.
- Ducetius, leader of the Sikels in Sicily, conquered and destroyed the Greek city of Morgan Tina.
- Pentekontaetie: Athens is at war with Corinth and Aegina, where Megara was besieged.
Died
- Themistocles, the Athenian general and statesman