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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC – 420s BC – 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC
Years: 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC 426 BC 425 BC 424 BC 423 BC 422 BC 421 BC 420 BC
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

• Peloponnesian War
• 429 BC—Battle of Chalcis—Chalcidians and their allies defeat Athens.
• 429 BC—Battle of Naupactus—Phormio defeats the Peloponnesian fleet.
• 429 BC—An outbreak of plague kills over one-third of the population of Athens.

Deaths

• 429 BC—Pericles, Athenian statesman (epidemic)

Significant people

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