The world in 429 BC — what happened that year
22 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
Southern Europe (22)
- Pericles catches the plague and gradually wastes away (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Pericles 38)
- Sparta attacks Plataea instead of Attica; the Plataeans appeal and are refused (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.71.1)
- They build a palisade and begin raising a siege mound to the height of the wall (70 days and nights) (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.75.1)
- They try to set the city on fire with brushwood, sulfur and pitch, but a downpour puts it out (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.77.3)
- They build a double siege wall and leave a garrison, switching to a blockade (defenders: 400 Plataeans plus 80 Athenians) (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.78.1)
- The Athenian army is beaten at Spartolus by Chalcidian cavalry and light troops (430 men and three commanders killed) (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.79.1)
- Cnemus' allied army marches on Stratus, the largest city of Acarnania (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.81.2)
- The Stratians ambush and rout the Chaonians in the vanguard (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.81.5)
- Cnemus withdraws to the Anapus River and returns by way of Oeniadae (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.82.1)
- Phormio's 20 ships defeat 47 Corinthian ships (first naval battle) (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.83.1)
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