416 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	440s BC  430s BC  420s BC  – 410s BC –  400s BC  390s BC  380s BC
Years:	419 BC 418 BC 417 BC – 416 BC – 415 BC 414 BC 413 BC

416 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

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Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

416 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	416 BC
Ab urbe condita	338
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4335
Bahá'í calendar	-2259–-2258
Bengali calendar	-1008
Berber calendar	535
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	129
Burmese calendar	-1053
Byzantine calendar	5093–5094
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (2221/2281) — to — 乙丑年 (2222/2282)
Coptic calendar	-699–-698
Ethiopian calendar	-423–-422
Hebrew calendar	3345–3346
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-359–-358
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2686–2687
Holocene calendar	9585
Iranian calendar	1037 BP – 1036 BP
Islamic calendar	1069 BH – 1068 BH
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar
Korean calendar	1918
Minguo calendar	2327 before ROC 民前2327年
Thai solar calendar	128

Year 416 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Atratinus, Ambustus, Mugillanus and Rutilus (or, less frequently, year 338 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 416 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.

Events

By place

Greece

• With the encouragement of Alcibiades, the Athenians take the island of Melos (which has remained neutral during the Peloponnesian War). Its inhabitants are treated with great cruelty by the Athenians, with all the men capable of bearing arms being killed, while the women and children are made slaves.
• In Sicily, the Ionian city of Segesta asks for Athenian help from the Dorian city of Selinus (which is supported by the powerful Sicilian city of Syracuse). The people of Syracuse are ethnically Dorian (as are the Spartans), while the Athenians, and their allies in Sicily, are Ionian. The Athenians feel obliged to assist their ally and therefore prepare an armada to attack Sicily.