-405

This page relates to the year -405 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

  • Beginning of the reign of Denys Old the, tyrant of Syracuse. -367.
  • the Carthaginians take Géla and Camarine in Sicily (be). Denys must move back and evacuate the two cities. The riding rich person return then precipitately to Syracuse, plunder the house of Denys and maltreat his wife, who dies, then are on the point of seizing the power. Denys enters in its turn the city and massacres its opponents. The survivors take refuge in the fortress of Etna.
  • Peace between Carthage and Denys with the end of the year: all Western Sicily falls under the Punique domination. The inhabitants of Sélinonte, Himère, Agrigente, Froze and Camarine can return in their cities, but do not have the right to rebuild ramparts, and must pay tribute with Carthage. Léontinoi, Metz-native, Catane and Naxos and the Sicules escapes the authority from Syracuse. Syracusains will be subjected to Denys.
  • Denys strengthens the peninsula of Ortygie and installs its palate there. It confiscates the fields and the goods of its adversaries, and redistributes them with his/her friends, mercenaries and with freed who obtain the citizenship.

  • September: The general Sparte Lysandre demolishes by the trick the Athenian fleet led by Conon to Aigos Potamos.
  • the Athenians makes captive, culprits of various war crimes and having issued which they would cut the right hand of all the prisoners, are put at death, except for the strategist Adeimantos. Lysandre undertakes the systematic conquest of the empire, except for Samos. The Athenians of the empire are returned to Athens, which increases the number of mouths to be nourished in the besieged city. The Athenians try to resist. They grant the established among in Samiens, the only ones which remained to them faithful, and reinforce the fortifications.
  • Lysandre restores the Éginètes expelled by Athens in 431 before our era in their possessions.

  • Decree of Patrocleidès which amnesties the Athenians having taken part in the coup d'etat of the Four hundred.

  • Amyrtaios releases the Egypt yoke Perse.

Art & culture

Births in -405

Death in -405

  • the author of Greek tragedy Sophocle seems to be deceased in -406 or -405.

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