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Year of the Fire Ox丁丑(at the beginning of Fire Rat丙子)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • After the assassination of the Persian Great King Xerxes I. Minister Artabanus also tried his successor Artaxerxes I. overthrow. The conspiracy is betrayed by the nobles Megabyzos II, Artabanus executed.
  • In Messinia, there is a major earthquake, which in Sparta much is destroyed and some 20,000 people are killed. The weakening of Sparta then use the helots of the city to an uprising by the Spartans under Archidamus II provisionally can not get it under control.

Disasters

  • A major earthquake in Sparta cost around 20,000 lives.

Sports

Died

  • Artabanus, Persian regicide
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