The 5th century BCE: key events

Chronyas has 373 events dated to the 5th century BCE (500 BCE to 401 BCE), during the Ancient civilizations. Below are the most notable ones, in date order.

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500 BCEOrigins of Temple of Aphaea
from 500 BCE to 1500Dorset culture
from 500 BCE to 480 BCEOrigins of Old Temple of Athena
500 BCEBirth of Anaxagoras
from 500 BCE to 300 BCEPazyryk culture
from 499 BCE to 493 BCEIonian Revolt
from 499 BCE to 449 BCEGreco-Persian Wars
496 BCEOrigins of Temple of Castor and Pollux
496 BCEBirth of Sophocles
c. 495 BCEOrigins of Nanjing
494 BCEBirth of Pericles
494 BCEBirth of Empedocles
from 492 BCE to 490 BCEFirst Persian invasion of Greece
from 491 BCE to 480 BCELeonidas I becomes King of Sparta
490 BCEBirth of Zeno of Elea
12 August 490 BCEBattle of Marathon
from October 486 BCE to August 465 BCEXerxes I becomes King of Kings
484 BCEBirth of Herodotus
from 480 BCE to 479 BCESecond Persian invasion of Greece
from 480 BCE to 404 BCEFifth-century Athens
11 August 480 BCEBattle of Thermopylae
27 September 480 BCEBattle of Salamis
479 BCEDeath of Confucius
479 BCEBattle of Mycale
27 August 479 BCEBattle of Plataea
478 BCECharioteer of Delphi
from 478 BCE to 403 BCEFounding of Delian League
from 476 BCE to 221 BCEWarring States period
470 BCEBirth of Socrates
466 BCEDiscovery of Halley's Comet
460 BCEArtemision Bronze
460 BCERiace bronzes
460 BCEBirth of Hippocrates
from 460 BCE to 445 BCEFirst Peloponnesian War
from 460 BCE to 46 CEOdrysian kingdom
458 BCEPremiere of Oresteia
456 BCEDeath of Aeschylus
c. 450s BCEDoryphoros
c. 450s BCEDiscobolus
c. 450s BCEAthena Promachos
c. 451 BCEThe Twelve Tables, Rome's first written law
450 BCEGortyn code
from 450 BCE to 312 BCEKition
from 450 BCE to 15 CELa Tène culture
450 BCEOrigins of Ranikot Fort
449 BCEPeace of Callias
c. 449 BCEConstruction of the Temple of Hephaestus
448 BCEAthena Parthenos
from 448 BCE to 433 BCEConstruction of the Parthenon begins
445 BCELex Canuleia
445 BCEBirth of Aristophanes
c. 440s BCEElgin Marbles
440s BCESecond Sacred War
from 440 BCE to 439 BCESamian War
from 437 BCE to 370 CEBosporan Kingdom
437 BCEPropylaea of Athens
432 BCEOrigins of Heraclea Lucania
c. 430s BCEDiadumenos
from 431 BCE to 404 BCEPeloponnesian War
from c. 430s BCE to 470sStatue of Zeus at Olympia
c. 430s BCEHerodotus writes the Histories
c. 430 BCEBirth of Xenophon
from 430 BCE to 426 BCEPlague of Athens
430 BCEOrigins of Brauroneion
c. 420s BCEConstruction of Temple of Athena Nike
425 BCEDeath of Herodotus
423 BCEDarius II becomes King of Kings
c. 421 BCEConstruction of the Erechtheion
11 April 421 BCEPeace of Nicias
420 BCEOrigins of Temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae
from 415 BCE to 413 BCESicilian Expedition
from 413 BCE to 345 BCEShishunaga dynasty
411 BCEAthenian coup of 411 BC
c. 410 BCEEruption of Meager
406 BCEDeath of Sophocles
from 404 BCE to 399 BCETwenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt
from 403 BCE to 230 BCEHan
from 403 BCE to 222 BCEZhao
from 403 BCE to 225 BCEWei
from 401 BCE to 399 BCEThe Ten Thousand

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