436 BCE

Following Pericles' visit to the Black Sea, a large Athenian colony is founded at Amphipolis. This is disconcertingly close to an outpost of Corinthian influence at Potidaea in the Chalcidice. Corinth feels it is being indirectly pressured by Athens.

In the 430s BC, the 5th century BC.

Exploration & Expansion

  • Following Pericles' visit to the Black Sea, a large Athenian colony is founded at Amphipolis. This is disconcertingly close to an outpost of Corinthian influence at Potidaea in the Chalcidice. Corinth feels it is being indirectly pressured by Athens.source

Births

  • Isocrates, Athenian orator (died 338 BC)source
  • Artaxerxes II, king of Persia (approximate date) (died 358 BC)source

Deaths

  • Zengcius, Chinese philosopher (born 505 BC)source