446 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
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Years:	449 BC · 448 BC · 447 BC · 446 BC · 445 BC · 444 BC · 443 BC

446 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	446 BC CDXLV BC
Ab urbe condita	308
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 80
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 20
Ancient Greek era	83rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4305
Bengali calendar	−1038
Berber calendar	505
Buddhist calendar	99
Burmese calendar	−1083
Byzantine calendar	5063–5064
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2251 or 2191     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2252 or 2192
Coptic calendar	−729 – −728
Discordian calendar	721
Ethiopian calendar	−453 – −452
Hebrew calendar	3315–3316
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−389 – −388
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2655–2656
Holocene calendar	9555
Iranian calendar	1067 BP – 1066 BP
Islamic calendar	1100 BH – 1099 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1888
Minguo calendar	2357 before ROC 民前2357年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1913
Thai solar calendar	97–98

Year 446 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbatus and Fusus (or, less frequently, year 308 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 446 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.

Events

By place

Greece

• Achaea achieves its independence from Athens, while Euboea, crucial to Athenian control of the sea and food supplies, revolts against Athens. Pericles crosses over to Euboea with his troops.
• Megara joins the revolt against Athens. The strategic importance of Megara is immediately demonstrated by the appearance, for the first time in 12 years, of a Spartan army under King Pleistoanax in Attica. The threat from the Spartan army leads Pericles to arrange, by bribery and by negotiation, that Athens will give up its mainland possessions and confine itself to a largely maritime empire.
• The Spartan army retires, so Pericles crosses back to Euboea with 50 ships and 5,000 soldiers, cracking down any opposition. He punishes the landowners of Chalcis, who lose their properties, while the residents of Histiaea are uprooted and replaced by 2,000 Athenian settlers.
• After hearing that the Spartan army had accepted bribes from Pericles, Pleistoanax, the King of Sparta, is impeached by the citizens of Sparta, but flees to exile in Arcadia. His military adviser, Cleandridas also flees and is condemned to death in his absence.

Sicily

• Ducetius, the Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, returns from exile in Corinth to Sicily and colonises Cale Acte on the north coast with Greek and Siculi settlers.
• Acragas declares war on Syracuse because of the return of Ducetius and is defeated by Syracuse in the Battle of the Himera River.

Roman Republic

• In the Battle of Corbione, Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus leads Roman troops to a victory over the Aequi of north-east Latium and the Volsci of southern Latium.

Births

• Aristophanes, Greek playwright (approximate year) (d. c. 385 BC)
• Marcus Furius Camillus, Roman soldier and statesman (traditional date) (d. 365 BC)

Deaths

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