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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.
458 BC. Pleistarchus, King of Sparta since 480 BC; 456 BC. Aeschylus, Greek playwright (b. 525 BC) [7] 454 BC. Alexander I of Macedon; 453 BC. Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus [10] [11] Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus [12] Sextus Quinctilius [13] [14] [15] 452 BC. Sextus Quinctilius, consul of the Roman Republic, 453–452 BC. 450 BC
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
1000 BC: Athapaskan-speaking natives arrive in Alaska and northwestern North America, possibly from Siberia. 1000 BC: Pottery making widespread in the Eastern Woodlands. 1000 BC–100 AD: Adena culture takes form in the Ohio River valley, carving fine stone pipes placed with their dead in gigantic burial mounds. [1] See Prehistory of Ohio.
By the mid-5th century BC, the League had become an Athenian Empire, symbolized by the transfer of the League's treasury from Delos to the Parthenon in 454 BC. Map of the Athenian empire c. 450 BC. The wealth of Athens attracted talented people from all over Greece, and also created a wealthy leisure class who became patrons of the arts.
Timaeus provided useful benchmarks for events described in Roman history: he places the Battle of Aricia in 504 BC; [31] he was also the probable source of the synchronism – a claim that certain events occurred around the same time – of the Gallic sack of Rome with the Peace of Antalcidas and the siege of Rhegium by Dionysius of Syracuse in ...
Telecleides (fl. 450–430 BC), playwright of the Old Comedy; Thucydides (c. 460–400 BC), historian and general; Hermippus (fifth century BC), playwright of the Old Comedy; Cleon (fl. 435–422 BC), general during the Peloponnesian war; Alcibiades (c. 450–404 BC), statesman, orator and general; Ephialtes of Athens (c. 450–461 BC), politician