455 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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455 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 455 BC
CDLV BC
Ab urbe condita 299
Ancient Egypt era XXVII dynasty, 71
- Pharaoh Artaxerxes I of Persia, 11
Ancient Greek era 81st Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4296
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1047
Berber calendar 496
Buddhist calendar 90
Burmese calendar −1092
Byzantine calendar 5054–5055
Chinese calendar 乙酉年 (Wood  Rooster)
2243 or 2036
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire  Dog)
2244 or 2037
Coptic calendar −738 – −737
Discordian calendar 712
Ethiopian calendar −462 – −461
Hebrew calendar 3306–3307
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −398 – −397
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2646–2647
Holocene calendar 9546
Iranian calendar 1076 BP – 1075 BP
Islamic calendar 1109 BH – 1108 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1879
Minguo calendar 2366 before ROC
民前2366年
Nanakshahi calendar −1922
Thai solar calendar 88–89
Tibetan calendar 阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
−328 or −709 or −1481
     to 
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
−327 or −708 or −1480

Year 455 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vaticanus and Cicurinus (or, less frequently, year 299 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 455 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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  • Athens, under Athenian general Tolmides, sends 100 ships around the Peloponnesus and they set fire to the Spartan naval base at Gythion. As a result, Athens gains the agreement of the Achaean cities to join the Delian League. Athenian forces then go on to attack the Spartan allies on the Corinthian Gulf. Athens is now able to confine Sparta to the southern Peloponnesus.
  • The Athenians suffer a severe defeat in Egypt at the hands of the Persians. After being cut off in the Nile Delta, the Athenian fleet is defeated, and the Athenian army retreats across the Sinai Desert to Byblos before its remnants are rescued. The Egyptian rebel Inaros is crucified by the Persians. The Athenians decide against any further military activity in Egypt.

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