The world in 422 BC — what happened that year

13 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

During the truce Athens expels the people of Delos from Delos (a purification issue) (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.1.1)
Cleon sets out on a campaign toward Thrace with 1,200 infantry, 300 cavalry and 30 ships (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.2.1)
Cleon takes Torone by land and sea, and Pasitelidas is captured (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.3.2)
The Boeotians take Panactum, an Athenian border fort, by treachery (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.3.5)
Phaeax goes as envoy to Sicily and Italy and persuades them to check Syracuse for the relief of the commons of Leontini (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.4.5)
Cleon bases himself at Eion, fails in an attack on Stagirus, then takes Galepsus by assault (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.6.1)
Brasidas watches Cleon's movements from the heights of Cerdylium (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.6.3)
Amid his troops' grumbling, Cleon camps on the heights before Amphipolis and surveys the lake and walls (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.7.2–4)
Brasidas charges from the gate and breaks the Athenian center, while Clearidas attacks from the Thracian Gate in a pincer (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.10.6–7)
Cleon is killed by a Myrcinian peltast as he flees, and Brasidas also dies soon of his wound (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.10.9–11)