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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC

Decades: 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC - 440s BC - 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC

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• 449 BC - Construction begins on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.
• 449 BC - The Twelve Tables are promulgated to the people of Rome - the first public laws of the Roman Republic.
• 449 BC - Romans revolt against the decemvirate. The decemvirs resign and the tribunate is re-established.
• 449 BC - Herodotus completes his History, which records the events concerning the Persian War.
• 448 BC - The Peace of Callias between the Delian League and Persia ends the Persian Wars.
• 448 BC - Phidias finishes a 9 meter high statue of Athena on the Acropolis.
• 447 BC - Athens begins construction of the Parthenon, at the initiative of Pericles.
• 447 BC - Battle of Coronea - The Athenians are driven out of Boeotia.
• 447 BC - Achaeus of Eretria, a Greek playwright, shows his first play.
• 445 BC - Pericles declares Thirty Years Peace between Athens and Sparta.
• 445 BC - Artaxerxes I gives Nehemiah permission to rebuild Jerusalem.
• 445 BC - The Lacus Curtius is created by a lightning strike in Rome. It is consecrated by Gaius, Mettius or Marcus Curtius.
• 443 BC - The Roman Republic creates the office of censor, initially exclusive to patricians.
• 443 BC - Foundation of the Greek colony of Thurii in Italy. Its colonists include Herodotus and Lysias.
• 442 BC - Sophocles writes Antigone.
• 441 BC - Zhou ai wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China but dies before the year's end, to be succeeded by Zhou si wang.
• 441 BC - Zhou si wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China but dies before the year's end.
• 440 BC - Famine in Rome.
• 440 BC - Zhou kao wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 440 BC - Meron determines the two points of the solstice.
• 440 BC - Democritus proposes the existence of indivisible particles, which he calls atoms.

[edit] Births

• 446 BC - Aristophanes, Greek playwright (approximate year).
• 446 BC - Marcus Furius Camillus, Roman soldier and statesman (traditional date).

[edit] Deaths

• 449 BC - Appius Claudius, former decemvir, suicide.
• 449 BC - Spurius Oppius, former decemvir, suicide.
• 443 BC - Pindar, Greek poet.
• 442 BC - Zhou zhen ding wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.da:440'erne f.Kr.

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