- 400 BC
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Events
By place
Persian Empire
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Artaxerxes II King of Persia appointsTissaphernes to take over all the districts inAsia Minor over which Artaxerxes II's brother Cyrus had been governor before his revolt.Greece
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Xenophon 's "Ten Thousand" make their way back toGreece , with most of the men enlisting with theSparta ns. Xenophon's successful march through the Persian Empire encourages Sparta to turn on the Persians and begin wars against the Persians in Asia Minor.
* With the outbreak of the war between Sparta and the Persians, the Athenian admiral,Conon , obtains joint command, withPharnabazus , of a Persian fleet.
* War breaks out betweenSparta andElis .Carthage
* The Carthaginians occupy
Malta .Britain
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London has its origins on a rise above marshy waters at the point where theWalbrook joins theRiver Thames . TheCelt ic king,Belin , rebuilds an earth wall surrounding a few dozen huts and orders a small landing place to be cut into the south side of the wall, along the river front, where a wooden quay is built (approximate date).Egypt
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Amyrtaeus ofSais successfully completes a revolt against Persian control by gaining control of all ofUpper Egypt .By topic
Arts & sciences
* The
catapult is invented by Greek engineers.
* The Mature classical period ofsculpture ends inAncient Greece and is succeeded by the fourth-century (Late Classical ) period (approximate date).
* A model of theAcropolis ofAthens is made. It is now kept at theRoyal Ontario Museum inToronto ,Canada (approximate date).
*Theodorus fromPhokaia inAsia Minor , builds theTholos , the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia inDelphi (approximate date).Religion
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Brahmanism starts evolving inHinduism , a process which takes place over the following 200 years (approximate date).Births
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Deaths
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Thucydides , Greek historian (approximate date) (b. c.460 BC )
*Aspasia ofMiletus , widow ofPericles ofAthens (approximate date) (b. c.470 BC )
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