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Events

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Greece

Roman Republic

China

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Physics

Art

Births

Deaths

Events

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Greece

★ Samos, an autonomous member of the Delian League and one of Athens' principal allies with a substantial fleet of its own, quarrels with Miletus and appeals to Athens for assistance. Pericles decides in favour of Miletus, so Samos revolts. Pericles then sails to Samos with a fleet to overthrow its oligarchic government and install a democratic one. Sparta threatens to interfere. However, at a congress of the Peloponnesian League, its members vote not to intervene on behalf of Samos against Athens.

Roman Republic

★ A famine strikes in Rome.

China

★ Zhou kao wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

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Physics

★ Democritus proposes the existence of indivisible particles, which he calls atoms.

Art

★ Polykleitos completes one of his greatest statues, the ''Doryphorus'' (''The Spear Bearer'') (approximate date).

★ The metope relief, ''Lapith fighting a centaur'', from the Doric metope on the side of the Parthenon, is made. It is now preserved at The British Museum in London (approximate date).

★ The stela, ''Demeter, Persephone and Triptolemos'', from Eleusis, is made (approximate date). It is now kept at the National Archeological Museum in Athens.

Births

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Deaths

★ Ducetius, a Hellenized leader of the Sicels and founder of a united Sicilian state