440 BC
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| Centuries: | 6th century BC · 5th century BC · 4th century BC |
| Decades: | 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC |
| Years: | 443 BC 442 BC 441 BC 440 BC 439 BC 438 BC 437 BC |
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[edit] Greece
- Samos, an autonomous member of the Delian League and one of Athens' principal allies with a substantial fleet of its own, quarrels with Miletus and appeals to Athens for assistance. Pericles, decides in favour of Miletus, so Samos revolts. Pericles sails to Samos with a fleet to overthrow its oligarchic government and install a democratic one. Sparta threatens to interfere. However, at a congress of the Peloponnesian League, its members vote not to intervene on behalf of Samos against Athens.
[edit] Roman Republic
[edit] Asia
- Zhou kao wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
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[edit] Physics
- Democritus proposes the existence of indivisible particles, which he calls atoms.
[edit] Art
- Polykleitos completes one of his greatest statues, the "Doryphorus" ("Spear Bearer").
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