426 BC Chr.

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426 BC Chr.
An earthquake in the Gulf of Evia devastated the coasts of the Gulf of Malia and the northern Gulf of Evia .
426 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	118/119 (southern Buddhism); 117/118 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	37th (38th) cycle , year of the wooden hare 乙卯 ( at the beginning of the year wooden tiger 甲寅)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 88th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3335/36
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCXXVIII (328)

Events

Politics and world events

Greece

Peloponnesian War : The Athenians Cleon and Demosthenes strengthen the army and navy, despite the objections of Nicias and his partisans.
Demosthenes besieges the Corinthian colony of Leukas without success.
Summer:
- Startled by the severe earthquake in the Gulf of Evia (followed by a series of earthquakes), which is viewed as a bad omen, the Spartan expedition returns to Attica .
- The Athenians are continuing the expedition to Sicily that began the previous year.
- The Athenian fleet with 60 ships commanded by Nikias has to turn around in front of Melos , which should actually be thrown down, and instead lands in Boeotia in front of Oropos . The 2,000 hoplites they were carrying , after being reinforced by other Athenian troops, marched to Tanagra, an ally of Sparta . There it comes to the Second Battle of Tanagra , in which the troops of Tanagras and Thebes ( Boeotian League ) are clearly defeated by the Athenians under Nikias, Hipponikos and Eurymedon .
- Sparta founds the new colony Herakleia Trachinia in Thessaly .

Beginning of August: As part of the Aetolian campaign, the Athenian strategist Demosthenes succeeds in defending Naupaktos . In the ensuing Battle of Olpai in Akarnania , he was able to defeat the united Peloponnesians and Ambrakians (who died over 2,000) with relatively low losses . After a ceasefire, the Peloponnesians withdraw and the Ambrakians enter into a permanent truce with the Akarnani.

In Sparta, Agis II is enthroned as the new king. He succeeds his father Archidamos II , who died in 422 BC. Dies. At the same time, the other king of Sparta , Pleistoanax, is recalled from his 19-year-old exile.

Purification of Delos by the Athenians, 2nd catharsis : all births, deaths and burials are prohibited and existing graves are relocated to the neighboring island of Rinia .

Roman Republic

November 30th: In Rome , the Senate appoints military tribunes with consular authority for three years (until 424 BC) . For 426 BC The military tribunes were Titus Quinctius Pennus Cincinnatus , Gaius Furius Pacilus Fusus , Marcus Postumius Albinus Regillensis and Aulus Cornelius Cossus .
Second phase of the second war Rome against Veji : Victory of the Vejer over the Roman army commanded by the military tribunes Titus Quinctius Pennus Cincinnatus, Gaius Furius Pacilus Fusus and Marcus Postumius Albinus Regillensis.
Mamercus Aemilius is then appointed dictator for the third time .
Under the leadership of their dictator, the Romans finally succeed in smashing the enemy coalition of Veji and Fidenae . Fidenae is sacked and the residents are sold as slaves.

Culture

March / April: The lost comedy The Babylonians by Aristophanes wins first prize at the Dionysia .

Disasters

An earthquake in the Gulf of Evia devastated the coasts of the Gulf of Malia and the northern Gulf of Evia in Greece in summer . The earthquake triggers a tsunami that floods coasts and cities. The intensity of the earthquake is estimated on the basis of the historically transmitted descriptions of the damage on the Medvedev-Sponheuer-Kárník scale on the XI .
The since 430 BC Chr. Attic plague raging in Athens finally subsides.

Born

Xenophon

around 426 BC Chr .: Xenophon , Athenian writer, politician and general

Died

Eurylochus , Spartan general, is killed in the battle of Olpai
Zhou Kaowang or King Kao (Kaowang), Chinese king of the Zhou dynasty