The world in 433 BC — what happened that year

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

What happened

Southern Europe (9)

• He persuades Athens to send relief forces to Corcyra (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Pericles 29)
• After two assemblies, Athens makes a defensive alliance with Corcyra (not joining in attack) (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.44.1)
• Athens sends ten ships to Corcyra, with orders to intervene only if the Corinthian fleet tries to land (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.45.1)
• Corinth with 150 ships crosses via Leucas and anchors and camps at Chimerium on the mainland opposite (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.46.4)
• Corcyra leads 110 ships to station at the Sybota islands, placing its army at Leucimme with 1,000 Zacynthians (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.47.1)
• Battle of Sybota: fought like a land battle, the Corcyraean right routs the Corinthian right wing, while the Corinthian left prevails (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.49.1)
• At dusk 20 Athenian reinforcement ships arrive, Corinth backs off and the fighting stops at night (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.50.5)
• On the way home Corinth takes Anactorium by treachery and plants settlers there (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.55.1)
• Athens orders Potidaea to tear down its wall, give hostages and expel the Corinthian officials (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.56.2)

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