429 BC Chr.

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429 BC Chr.
Pericles falls victim to the Attic plague .
429 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	115/116 (southern Buddhism); 114/115 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	37th (38th) cycle , year of the water rat壬子 ( at the beginning of the year metal pig 辛亥)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 87th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3332/33
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCCXXV (325)

Events

Politics and world events

Greece

Winter 430/429 BC BC: The Athenians conquer Potidaia in Thrace .
March: Pericles is elected strategos again in Athens .

Peloponnesian War : In summer the siege of Plataiai begins under Archidamos II , King of Sparta , which lasted until 427 BC. Will last.

Summer: Battle of Spartolos . The Athenians under their general Xenophon march to Thrace to attack Chalcis . After they burned down the grain fields at Spartolos , they are challenged to battle by a united army of Chalcis, Spartolos and Olynthos . The Athenian hoplites are initially successful, but can no longer withstand after the arrival of reinforcements from Olynth and are wiped out by opposing light infantry ( Peltast ) and cavalry, whereby all three military leaders and 480 warriors perish, the survivors flee to Potidaia.

Battle of Stratos . The summer of 429 BC BC is marked by a Peloponnesian offensive in north-western Greece. The Spartan Nauarch Knemos is entrusted with the management of a combined land-sea campaign, which is to eliminate the Athenian allies Akarnanien , Zakynthos and Kephallenia and at the same time take the Athenian naval base Naupaktos at the exit of the Gulf of Corinth . Knemos can cross over to Akarnania with 1000 hoplites without being noticed and marches together with several allies ( Ambrakians , Chaonians , Illyrians etc.) to Stratos , an ally of Akarnania. However, their advance is stopped before the gates of the capital Aitolia , the Illyrians are crushed and the Spartans are forced to return to their fleet.

Battle of Naupaktos . The Athenian admiral Phormion defeated the numerically superior fleet from Corinth in the First Battle of Naupaktos with his fleet of 20 ships . The Corinthian fleet commanded by Machaon , Isocrates and Agatharchidas consists of 47 ships, which are supposed to support the campaign of the Spartan general Knemos in Akarnania. In the Second Battle of Naupaktos , the Athenian fleet is faced with an even greater superiority of 77 ships from the now combined Corinthian-Spartan fleet. Amazingly, the Athenians succeed in forcing their opponents to retreat to Corinth despite losses.

October / November: The Peloponnesians, led by Knemos and Brasidas , with 40 ships from Megara and others, attempt an attack against Piraeus from Nisaia . However, unfavorable winds keep them away from their target, so that they only attack Salamis , but their fortress resists the siege.

Beginning of winter: The Thracian king Sitalkes invades Macedonia with a huge army . Perdiccas II , however, moves him to turn around again with a skilful marital policy move.

Allied with Polychna , the Athenians destroy the Cretan city of Kydonia .

Roman Republic

November 15: The consulate of Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus and Lucius Sergius Fidenas begins in Rome .

Culture

around 429 BC Chr .: Sophocles begins to work on the material of King Oedipus .

Disasters

The Attic plague that broke out in the previous year continues to rage in Athens , probably a variant of the plague that, among other things , fell victim to Pericles in September. This leads to a change of power in Athens. The leader of the opposition party Kleon takes over the office of strategist .

Born

around 429 BC Chr .: Atheas , king of the Scythians

Died

September: Lampon , Greek fortune teller (* around 490 BC )
September: Pericles , Athenian politician (* around 490 BC )
Xenophon , Athenian general (* around 480 BC )

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