This page relates to the year -456 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Greek world

• Athens seizes Égine (winter) and thus reinforces its preponderance in central Greece (or 457 av. J-C.). It launches forwardings around the Peloponnese: Tolmidès fire the holds of Gythion and makes adhere to the league Zacynthe and Céphalonie. Périclès, in spite of its victory, does not succeed in taking Sicyone but obtains the adhesion of the Achaïe.

• Athens seizes Naupacte of which it makes at the time of the Peloponnesian War the principal center of its presence on the Golfe of Corinth (or -455). Exiled third war of Messénie settle with Naupacte.

• After having helped the rebels Egyptian S against the Persian capacity , the Athenians is put in escape by a Persian fleet of 300 ships, driven out Memphis, and finds refuge in an island of the delta of the the Nile, Prosopidis, for 18 months. Athens loses 90 trières and of many men.

Roman world

• With Rome, Consul At of Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca, Spurius Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus

Art & culture

• First tragedies of Euripide.

Births

Death in -456

• Eschyle, tragic actor, with Froze.