By place Greece •
Pleistoanax succeeds
Pleistarchus as king of
Sparta. •
Pericles continues
Ephialtes' democratising activities by making the
archonship a paid office and the lower class of
Athenian citizens eligible to hold the office. • The Athenians start constructing the
Long Walls to protect the route from the main city to their main port (
Piraeus). •
Aegina joins the
Peloponnesian alliance, but their combined fleet is defeated by the Athenians in the
Battle of Aegina. The Athenians, under the command of
Leocrates, land on the island of Aegina and besiege and defeat the city. Aegina is forced to pay tribute to Athens.
Roman Republic • The Roman general
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is summoned by the
Roman Senate to defend the city from attack by the approaching
Aequi. He is named
dictator of
Rome for six months. He goes on to defeat the enemy in a single day at the
Battle of Mount Algidus and celebrates a
triumph in Rome. Sixteen days after the battle, he resigns his dictatorship and returns to his farm.
By topic Literature • The
Athenian playwright Aeschylus completes his
trilogy The Oresteia (which comprise
Agamemnon,
Choephoroi (
The Libation Bearers) and
The Eumenides). == Births ==