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Year of the Metal Snake辛巳( at the beginning of the year Metal Dragon庚辰)

Events

Politics and Culture

  • Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is Consul of the Roman Republic.
  • 460 BC: The prytaneion in Athens is completed.

Sports

  • King Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene wins at the Olympic Games in the four-horse chariot.

Born

  • 460 BC: Hippocrates of Kos, Greek physician
  • 460 BC: Laches, Athenian commander
  • 460 BC: Thucydides, an Athenian strategist and historian

Died

  • 460 BC: Epicharmos, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c. 540 BC)
  • 460 BC: Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek pre-Socratic philosopher (c. 520 BC)
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