424 BC Chr.

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424 BC Chr.
Boiotia defeats Athens at the Battle of Delion .
424 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	120/121 (southern Buddhism); 119/120 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	37th (38th) cycle , year of the fire-serpent丁巳 ( at the beginning of the year fire-dragon 丙辰)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 88th / 1st year of the 89th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3337/38
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCXXX (330)

Events

Politics and world events

Italy

• The Samnites conquer Pompeii and Capua .

Greece

Site of the Battle of Delion

• Peloponnesian War : Boeotia , allied with Sparta , under Pagondas, defeats Athens in the Battle of Delion .
• In the battle for Megara , Athens succeeds in conquering the port of Nikaia, but not in conquering the city of Megara itself.

Thrace

• Seuthes I becomes king of the Odryses in Thrace .

Persian Empire

• December: . Xerxes II , after the death of his father I. Artaxerxes great king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire .

Culture

• The comedy Hippeis ( The Knights ) by Aristophanes , with which the aspiring poet mocks the "old master" of the comedy Kratinos , is premiered at the Lenaia and wins first prize.

nature and environment

• Lunar eclipse from 28/29. September 424 BC Chr.

Sports

• Dorieus, son of Diagoras of Rhodes , wins the Pankration at the Olympic Games for the third time and becomes Periodonica again .

Died

• December: Artaxerxes I , Persian great king of the Achemain Empire
• Hippocrates , Athenian strategist
• around 424 BC Chr .: Herodotus , Greek historian

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