439 BC
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Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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439 BC by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 439 BC CDXXXIX BC |
Ab urbe condita | 315 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXVII dynasty, 87 |
- Pharaoh | Artaxerxes I of Persia, 27 |
Ancient Greek era | 85th Olympiad, year 2 |
Assyrian calendar | 4312 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
Bengali calendar | −1031 |
Berber calendar | 512 |
Buddhist calendar | 106 |
Burmese calendar | −1076 |
Byzantine calendar | 5070–5071 |
Chinese calendar | 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2259 or 2052 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2260 or 2053 |
Coptic calendar | −722 – −721 |
Discordian calendar | 728 |
Ethiopian calendar | −446 – −445 |
Hebrew calendar | 3322–3323 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −382 – −381 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2662–2663 |
Holocene calendar | 9562 |
Iranian calendar | 1060 BP – 1059 BP |
Islamic calendar | 1093 BH – 1092 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 1895 |
Minguo calendar | 2350 before ROC 民前2350年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1906 |
Thai solar calendar | 104–105 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) −312 or −693 or −1465 — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) −311 or −692 or −1464 |
Year 439 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lanatus and Barbatus (or, less frequently, year 315 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 439 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
- As a result of Persian assistance to Samos, it takes the Athenian army nine months to successfully complete its siege of Samos and force the Samians to surrender. Samos becomes a tributary of Athens.
Roman Republic
- Spurius Maelius, a wealthy Roman plebeian, tries to buy popular support with the aim of making himself king. During the severe famine affecting Rome, he buys up a large store of grain and sells it at a low price to the people of Rome – the first time this had been done in Rome. This leads Lucius Minucius, the patrician praefectus annonae ("president of the market"), to accuse Maelius of seeking to take over the government.
- Maelius is summoned before Cincinnatus (who has again become dictator of the Roman Republic, to put down a revolt by the plebeians), but refuses to appear. Shortly thereafter, Maelius is killed by Gaius Servilius Ahala and his house is burnt to the ground.
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