5th Century BC - Significant Persons

Significant Persons

• 498 BC—death of Amyntas I, king of Macedonia
• Pythagoras of Samos, Greek mathematician, discoverer of the Pythagorean theorem (582–496 BC)
• 491 BC—death of Hippocrates, Tyrant of Gela
• Gautama Buddha, founding figure of Buddhism (c. 563–483 BC)
• Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism (551–August 27, 479 BC)
• Mahavira of Vaishali, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism(possibly 599 BC–527 BC)
• Aeschylus of Athens, playwright (525–456 BC)
• Darius I, King of Persia (reigned 521–485 BC)
• Panini, Hindu Indian grammarian, (520 BC–460 BC)
• Sophocles of Athens, playwright (496–406 BC)
• 496 BC—death of Sun Tzu, military philosopher and author of The Art of War (most likely a colloquial date)
• Pericles of Athens, politician (c. 495–429 BC)
• Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (495 BC–c. 430 BC)
• Phidias, Greek sculptor(490 BC–c. 430 BC)
• Empedocles, Greek philosopher, (490 BC–c. 430 BC)
• 489 BC—Birth of Eudoxus of Cnidus, early mathematician and adherent of Pythagoras Dion, student of Plato and tyrant of Syracuse
• 488 BC—Death of Miltiades, Athenian general
• Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian (c. 485 BC)
• Euripides of Athens, playwright (c. 480–406 BC)
• 479 BC—death of Mardonius, Persian commander at Plataea
• 479 BC—death of Ephialtes, betrayer of Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae
• 476 BC—death of King Jing of Zhou / Ji Gai, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China
• 475 BC—death of Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher
• Socrates of Athens, philosopher (470–399 BC)
• 470 BC—birth of Mozi, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 391 BC)
• c. 469 BC—birth of Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 406 BC)
• 469 BC—King Yuan of Zhou, king of the Zhou Dynasty of China
• 469 BC—death of Leotychides, king of Sparta
• 469 BC—death of Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet
• 468 BC—death of Aristides, Athenian statesman
• 465 BC death of Xerxes I, king of Persia (murder)
• 464 BC—death of Artabanus of Persia, Regent King for Artaxerxes I
• 461 BC—Ephialtes, leader of the radical democrats, assassinated.
• Thucydides, Greek historian, (460 BC–395 BC)
• Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician, (460 BC–377 BC)
• Democritus of Abdera, Greek philosopher, (460 BC–370 BC)
• 459 BC—death of Pleistarchus, King of Sparta
• 451 BC—death of Verginia, legendary victim of the decemviri
• c. 450 BC—birth of Alcibiades, Athenian general and politician
• c. 450 BC—death of Cimon, major political figure in Athens and the son of Miltiades
• c. 450 BC—death of Alexander I, king of Macedonia
• 449 BC—death of Appius Claudius, former decemvir (suicide)
• 449 BC—death of Spurius Oppius, former decemvir(suicide)
• Aristophanes of Athens, playwright (a. 446–385 BC).
• 446 BC—birth of Marcus Furius Camillus, Roman soldier and statesman (traditional date)
• 444 BC-death of Socrates Philosipher
• 443 BC—death of Pindar, Greek poet
• 442 BC—death of King Zhending of Zhou, king of the Zhou Dynasty of China
• 437 BC—death of Volumnius, Etruscan ruler, in Veii
• 436 BC—birth of Isocrates, Athenian orator
• c. 436 BC—birth of Artaxerxes II, king of Persia
• 435 BC—birth of Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC).
• Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432 BC–367 BC).
• c. 430 BC—death of Empedocles, Greek philosopher
• c. 430 BC—death of Phidias, Greek sculptor
• c. 430 BC—death of Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher
• Darius II, king of Persia (reigned 423–404 BC)
• Ezra and Nehemiah active in Judea
• Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin
• Zengzi, 505 BC–436 BC, student of Confucius, wrote Great Learning
• Zuo Qiuming, ?-? Chinese historian and author of the Zuo Zhuan.