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s 428 BC In other calendars | -! Buddhist calendar | 116/117 (southern Buddhism); 115/116 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) | -! Chinese calendar | 37th (38th) cycle , year of the water buffalo癸丑 ( at the beginning of the year water rat 壬子) | -! Greek calendar | 4th year of the 87th / 1st year of the 88th Olympiad | -! Jewish calendar | 3333/34 | -! Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCCXXVI (326) |}
Events
Politics and world events
Greece
- Siege of Plataiai in the Peloponnesian War . In winter, the besieged run out of supplies. They make a secret attempt to escape on a stormy, moonless night. 200 escaped to Athens.
- End of June: The city of Mytilene on Lesbos rises against the Athenian rule and sends messengers to Sparta to apply for admission to the Peloponnesian League residing in Olympia . The Athenians then direct 40 ships, which were originally intended for an enterprise against the Peloponnesian coast, to Lesvos and begin the siege of the renegade city. The Spartan nauarch Alkidas for his part commands 40 ships of the Peloponnesian Alliance, which are to rush to the aid of the Mytilenians. However, after a ceasefire agreement, the uprising is ultimately put down before the Peloponnesian fleet arrives. The Athenians execute more than a thousand residents and dispatch 2,700 clergy who settle on the island the following year.
- Despite encouragement from the Ionians, Alkidas refuses to attack the Athenians directly. Instead, he transfers his fleet to the Kyllene . There it is reinforced and then sent to Korkyra , in which a rising against Athens has also broken out. The Spartan commanders Brasidas and Alkidas then defeat a fleet from Korkyra. But when they found out that 60 Athenian ships commanded by Eurymedon had left Leukas to intercept the Spartans, they withdrew again.
- Summer:
- Sparta invades Attica for the third time under Archidamos II .
- Athens succeeds in sending 100 ships to the Isthmus of Corinth and the Peloponnese. Except Usually located next Theten and metics also zeugitae on board.
- In Athens, Diotimos leads the office of archon (431–427 BC), Hagnon remains a strategist .
Italy
- The Greek colony Cumae falls to the Samnites , who gain control over the plain of Campania .
- November 27th: in Rome the beginning of the consulate of Aulus Cornelius Cossus and Titus Quinctius Pennus Cincinnatus , who is consul for the second time.
Culture
- March / April: Euripides ' tragedy The wreathed Hippolytos is performed for the first time at the Dionysia and wins the first prize there.
Disasters
- The Attic plague continues to rage in Athens .
Sports
- Dorieus, son of Diagoras of Rhodes , wins the pankration at the Olympic Games for the second time (88th Olympiad) and becomes Periodonica again . Symmachos from Messene wins the stadium run .
Born
- Archytas of Taranto , Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, politician and strategist (died 347 BC)
Died
- Anaxagoras , Greek pre-Socratic philosopher (born around 500 BC) and biologist of the Ionian school, teacher of Archelaos of Miletus , Pericles and Socrates . In his work On Nature , he examines the conditions of origin and the development of the universe. He was the first to reveal the problem of squaring the circle .
- Phormion , Athenian strategist.
- around 428 BC Chr .: Diogenes of Apollonia , Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and doctor, born in Apollonia on the Black Sea, (* around 499 BC )
