Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades: 440s BC  430s BC  420s BC  - 410s BC -  400s BC  390s BC  380s BC
Years: 417 BC 416 BC 415 BC - 414 BC - 413 BC 412 BC 411 BC
414 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
414 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 414 BC

Ab urbe condita 340
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2257 – -2256
Berber calendar 537
Buddhist calendar 131
Burmese calendar -1051
Byzantine calendar 5095 – 5096
Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2223/2283) [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年
(2224/2284)
Coptic calendar -697 – -696
Ethiopian calendar -421 – -420
Hebrew calendar 3347 – 3348
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -358 – -357
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2688 – 2689
Holocene calendar 9587
Iranian calendar 1035 BP – 1034 BP
Islamic calendar 1067 BH – 1066 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 1920
Thai solar calendar 130

Events

By place

Greece

• Athens responds to appeals from its general, Nicias, by sending out 73 vessels to Sicily under the command of Demosthenes to assist Nicias and his forces with the siege of Syracuse.
• The Athenian army moves to capture Syracuse while the larger fleet of Athenian ships blocks the approach to the city from the sea. After some initial success, the Athenian troops become disorganised in the chaotic night operation and are thoroughly routed by Gylippus, the Spartan commander. The Athenian commander Lamachus is killed. Nicias, although ill, is left in sole charge of the siege of Syracuse.

By topic

Drama

• Aristophanes' play The Birds is performed.

Births

Deaths

• Lamachus, Athenian general