443 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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443 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 443 BC
CDXLIII BC
Ab urbe condita 311
Ancient Egypt era XXVII dynasty, 83
- Pharaoh Artaxerxes I of Persia, 23
Ancient Greek era 84th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4308
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1035
Berber calendar 508
Buddhist calendar 102
Burmese calendar −1080
Byzantine calendar 5066–5067
Chinese calendar 丁酉年 (Fire  Rooster)
2255 or 2048
     to 
戊戌年 (Earth  Dog)
2256 or 2049
Coptic calendar −726 – −725
Discordian calendar 724
Ethiopian calendar −450 – −449
Hebrew calendar 3318–3319
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −386 – −385
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2658–2659
Holocene calendar 9558
Iranian calendar 1064 BP – 1063 BP
Islamic calendar 1097 BH – 1096 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1891
Minguo calendar 2354 before ROC
民前2354年
Nanakshahi calendar −1910
Thai solar calendar 100–101
Tibetan calendar 阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
−316 or −697 or −1469
     to 
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
−315 or −696 or −1468

Year 443 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Barbatus (or, less frequently, year 311 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 443 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.

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  • No consuls are elected in Rome, but rather military tribunes with consular power are appointed in their stead. While only patricians could be consuls, some military tribunes were plebeians. These positions had responsibility for the census, a vital function in the financial administration of Rome. So to stop the plebeians from possibly gaining control of the census, the patricians remove from the consuls and tribunes the right to take the census, and rather entrust it to two magistrates, called censores who were to be chosen exclusively from the patricians in Rome.

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