409 BC
Year 409 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cossus and Medullinus (or, less frequently, year 345 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 409 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Gregorian calendar | 409 BC CDVIII BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 345 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXVII dynasty, 117 |
| - Pharaoh | Darius II of Persia, 15 |
| Ancient Greek era | 92nd Olympiad, year 4 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4342 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1001 |
| Berber calendar | 542 |
| Buddhist calendar | 136 |
| Burmese calendar | −1046 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5100–5101 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2288 or 2228 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2289 or 2229 |
| Coptic calendar | −692 – −691 |
| Discordian calendar | 758 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −416 – −415 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3352–3353 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −352 – −351 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2692–2693 |
| Holocene calendar | 9592 |
| Iranian calendar | 1030 BP – 1029 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1062 BH – 1061 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1925 |
| Minguo calendar | 2320 before ROC 民前2320年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1876 |
| Thai solar calendar | 134–135 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) −282 or −663 or −1435 — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) −281 or −662 or −1434 |
Events
Greece
- Alcibiades recaptures Byzantium, ending the city's rebellion from Athens. This action completes Athenian control of the Bosporus which secures the Athenian supply route for grain from the Bosporan Kingdom in the Black Sea region.
- The Athenian general, Thrasyllus, sails out from Athens with a sizable force to campaign in Ionia. There, he quickly captures Colophon and raids the Ionian countryside, but is defeated outside Ephesus by a combined Ephesian, Persian, and Syracusan force.
- Pausanias succeeds his father Pleistoanax as Agiad king of Sparta.
- The city of Rhodes is founded.
Carthage
- Taking advantage of the quarrels between the Greek cities in Sicily and of the mutual exhaustion of Athens and Syracuse, Carthage seeks to reimpose its influence over the island. Hannibal Mago, grandson of Hamilcar, invades Sicily with a strong force. He defeats the Sicilian Greeks and avenges his grandfather through the torture and killing of 3,000 Greek prisoners. He captures the cities of Selinus (modern Selinunte) and Himera, before returning triumphantly to Carthage with the spoils of war.
Sicily
- The city of Himera is destroyed by the Carthaginians.[1]
Literature
- Sophocles' play Philoctetes is performed, with the theme of the Trojan War.
Deaths
- Pleistoanax, king of Sparta since 458 BC
References
- Roberts, John. The Oxford dictionary of the classical world. Oxford University Press. p. 344. ISBN 9780192801463.
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