440 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
440 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar440 BC
CDXL BC
Ab urbe condita314
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 86
- PharaohArtaxerxes I of Persia, 26
Ancient Greek era85th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar4311
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1032
Berber calendar511
Buddhist calendar105
Burmese calendar−1077
Byzantine calendar5069–5070
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
2258 or 2051
    — to —
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
2259 or 2052
Coptic calendar−723 – −722
Discordian calendar727
Ethiopian calendar−447 – −446
Hebrew calendar3321–3322
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−383 – −382
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2661–2662
Holocene calendar9561
Iranian calendar1061 BP – 1060 BP
Islamic calendar1094 BH – 1093 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1894
Minguo calendar2351 before ROC
民前2351年
Nanakshahi calendar−1907
Thai solar calendar103–104
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
−313 or −694 or −1466
    — to —
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
−312 or −693 or −1465

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)[citation needed]. 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

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  • Samos, an autonomous member of the Delian League and one of Athens' principal allies with a substantial fleet of its own, quarrels with Miletus. Miletus, also a member of the Delian League, 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.

The Histories by Herodotus was written that contain the knowledge of the Greco Persian wars.[1]

Roman Republic

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China

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Physics

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

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References

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  1. ^ "Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Ancient History".