457 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	480s BC  470s BC  460s BC  – 450s BC –  440s BC  430s BC  420s BC
Years:	460 BC 459 BC 458 BC – 457 BC – 456 BC 455 BC 454 BC

457 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

457 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	457 BC
Ab urbe condita	297
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4294
Bahá'í calendar	-2300–-2299
Bengali calendar	-1049
Berber calendar	494
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	88
Burmese calendar	-1094
Byzantine calendar	5052–5053
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (2180/2240) — to — 甲申年 (2181/2241)
Coptic calendar	-740–-739
Ethiopian calendar	-464–-463
Hebrew calendar	3304–3305
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-400–-399
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2645–2646
Holocene calendar	9544
Iranian calendar	1078 BP – 1077 BP
Islamic calendar	1111 BH – 1110 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1877
Minguo calendar	2368 before ROC 民前2368年
Thai solar calendar	87

Year 457 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulvillus and Augurinus or Cincinnatus and Vibulanus (or, less frequently, year 297 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 457 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

Persian Empire

• Artaxerxes I decrees that the city government of Jerusalem be re-established.

Greece

• Athens, the leader of the Delian League, comes into conflict with Corinth and its ally Sparta (leader of the Peloponnesian League) over Megara. Nicodemes of Sparta, regent for King Pleistoanax, leads an army of 11,500 hoplites into Boeotia to help Thebes put down a rebellion by Phocis.
• Athenian forces block the routes back to the Peloponnese, so the Spartans decide to remain in Boeotia and await the Athenian attack. The Athenians and their allies, with 14,000 men under the command of Myronides, meet the Spartans at Battle of Tanagra. The Spartans win the battle, but they lose many men and so are unable to follow up on their victory.
• The Athenians regroup after the battle and march into Boeotia. Led by Myronides, the Athenians defeat the Boeotians in the Battle of Oenophyta, and then destroy the walls of Tanagra and ravage Locris and Phocis.
• Athens goes on to defeat Aegina later in the year, and to finish the construction of the Long Walls to the Athenian port of Piraeus (an action opposed by Sparta).
• Boeotia, Phocis and Opuntian Locris become members of the Delian League. Athens now has enrolled in the Delian League all the Boeotian cities except Thebes. Aegina is forced to become a member of the League. It is assessed, with Thasos, for a yearly contribution to the League of 30 talents.
• The Zeus Temple at Olympia is completed. The forty-foot statue of Zeus inside it becomes one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.