420s BC

420s BC

Events and trends

* Peloponnesian War
* 429 BCBattle of ChalcisChalcidians and their allies defeat Athens.
* 429 BC — Battle of NaupactusPhormio defeats the Peloponnesian fleet.
* 429 BC — An outbreak of plague kills over one-third of the population of Athens.

Deaths

*429 BCPericles, Athenian statesman (epidemic)

ignificant people

* Herodotus, Greek historian (b. c. 485 BC, he may have died somewhere between 430 and 425 BC).


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