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440s Bc

EVENTS AND TRENDS

449 BC — Construction begins on the Temple Of Hephaestus in Athens .

449 BC — The Twelve Tables are promulgated to the people of Rome — the first public laws of the Roman Republic .

449 BC — Romans revolt against the Decemvirate . The Decemvirs resign and the Tribunate is re-established.

449 BC — Herodotus completes his '' History '', which records the events concerning the Persian War .

448 BC — The Peace Of Callias between the Delian League and Persia ends the Persian Wars .

448 BC — Phidias finishes a 9 meter high statue of Athena on the Acropolis .

447 BC — Athens begins construction of the Parthenon , at the initiative of Pericles .

447 BC — Battle Of Coronea — The Athenians are driven out of Boeotia .

447 BC — Achaeus Of Eretria , a Greek Playwright , shows his first Play .

445 BC — Pericles declares Thirty Years Peace between Athens and Sparta .

445 BC — Artaxerxes I gives Nehemiah permission to rebuild Jerusalem .

445 BC — The Lacus Curtius is created by a lightning strike in Rome . It is consecrated by Gaius , Mettius or Marcus Curtius .

443 BC — The Roman Republic creates the office of Censor , initially exclusive to Patrician s.

443 BC — Foundation of the Greek Colony of Thurii in Italy . Its Colonist s include Herodotus and Lysias .

442 BC — Sophocles writes '' Antigone ''.

441 BC — Zhou Ai Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China but dies before the year's end, to be succeeded by Zhou Si Wang .

441 BC — Zhou Si Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China but dies before the year's end.

440 BC — Famine in Rome .

440 BC — Zhou Kao Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China .

440 BC — Meron determines the two points of the solstice.

440 BC — Democritus proposes the existence of indivisible particles, which he calls Atom s.

BIRTHS

c. 446 BC — Aristophanes , Greek Playwright

446 BC — Marcus Furius Camillus , Roman Soldier and Statesman (traditional date)

DEATHS

449 BC — Appius Claudius , former Decemvir , Suicide

449 BC — Spurius Oppius , former Decemvir , Suicide

443 BC — Pindar , Greek Poet

442 BC — Zhou Zhen Ding Wang , King of the Zhou Dynasty of China