440 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 6th century BC5th century BC4th century BC
Decades: 470s BC  460s BC  450s BC  – 440s BC –  430s BC  420s BC  410s BC
Years: 443 BC 442 BC 441 BC440 BC439 BC 438 BC 437 BC
440 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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440 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 440 BC
Ab urbe condita 314
Armenian calendar N/A
Assyrian calendar 4311
Bahá'í calendar -2283–-2282
Bengali calendar -1032
Berber calendar 511
English Regnal year N/A
Buddhist calendar 105
Burmese calendar -1077
Byzantine calendar 5069–5070
Chinese calendar 庚子
(2197/2257)
— to —
辛丑
(2198/2258)
Coptic calendar -723–-722
Ethiopian calendar -447–-446
Hebrew calendar 3321–3322
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -383–-382
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2662–2663
Holocene calendar 9561
Iranian calendar 1061 BP – 1060 BP
Islamic calendar 1094 BH – 1093 BH
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar
Korean calendar 1894
Minguo calendar 2351 before ROC
民前2351年
Thai solar calendar 104


Year 440 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Lanatus (or, less frequently, year 314 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 440 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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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

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Physics

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

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