450 BC

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450 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 450 BC
CDXLIX BC
Ab urbe condita 304
Ancient Egypt era XXVII dynasty, 76
- Pharaoh Artaxerxes I of Persia, 16
Ancient Greek era 82nd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4301
Balinese saka calendar N/A
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Berber calendar 501
Buddhist calendar 95
Burmese calendar −1087
Byzantine calendar 5059–5060
Chinese calendar 庚寅年 (Metal  Tiger)
2247 or 2187
     to 
辛卯年 (Metal  Rabbit)
2248 or 2188
Coptic calendar −733 – −732
Discordian calendar 717
Ethiopian calendar −457 – −456
Hebrew calendar 3311–3312
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −393 – −392
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 - Kali Yuga 2651–2652
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Korean calendar 1884
Minguo calendar 2361 before ROC
民前2361年
Nanakshahi calendar −1917
Thai solar calendar 93–94
Tibetan calendar 阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
−323 or −704 or −1476
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阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
−322 or −703 or −1475
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Greek colonies in the northern part of the Black Sea in 450 BC.

Year 450 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Second year of the decemviri (or, less frequently, year 304 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 450 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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Greece

  • Athenian general Cimon sails to Cyprus with two hundred triremes of the Delian League. From there, he sends sixty ships to Egypt to help the Egyptians under Amyrtaeus, who are fighting the Persians in the Nile Delta. Cimon uses the remaining ships to aid an uprising of the Cypriot Greek city-states against Persian control of the island. He lays siege to the Persian stronghold of Citium on the southern west coast of Cyprus. However, the siege fails and Cyprus remains under Phoenician (and Persian) control.
  • During the siege Cimon dies and command of the fleet is given to Anaxicrates, who leaves Citium to engage the Phoenician fleet in the Battle of Salamis in Cyprus. The Greek fleet is victorious against the Persians and their allies and then returns to Athens.
  • The Athenians reduce the tribute due from their subject city-states (i.e. members of the Delian League), and each city is allowed to issue its own coinage.
  • 5,000 talents are transferred to the treasury of the Delian League in Athens.

Macedonia

Roman Republic

  • The success of the first Decemvirate prompts the appointment of a second Decemvirate which also includes plebeians amongst its members. This second decemviri adds two more headings to their predecessor's ten, completing the Law of the Twelve Tables (Lex Duodecim Tabularum), which will form the centrepiece of Roman law for the next several centuries. Nevertheless, this Decemvirate's rule becomes increasingly violent and tyrannical.

Sicily

  • After minor preliminary successes (including the capture of Inessa from its Greek colonists), Ducetius, a Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, is decisively defeated by the combined forces of Syracuse and Acragas. Ducetius flees to exile in Corinth.

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