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Calendar year
Millennium:
1st millennium BC
Centuries:
6th century BC
5th century BC
4th century BC
Decades:
440s BC
430s BC
420s BC
410s BC
400s BC
Years:
423 BC
422 BC
421 BC
420 BC
419 BC
418 BC
417 BC
420 BC by topic
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420 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
420 BC CDXX BC
Ab urbe condita
334
Ancient Egypt era
XXVII dynasty, 106
- Pharaoh
Darius II of Persia, 4
Ancient Greek era
90th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar
4331
Balinese saka calendar
N/A
Bengali calendar
−1012
Berber calendar
531
Buddhist calendar
125
Burmese calendar
−1057
Byzantine calendar
5089–5090
Chinese calendar
庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2278 or 2071 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2279 or 2072
Coptic calendar
−703 – −702
Discordian calendar
747
Ethiopian calendar
−427 – −426
Hebrew calendar
3341–3342
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
−363 – −362
- Shaka Samvat
N/A
- Kali Yuga
2681–2682
Holocene calendar
9581
Iranian calendar
1041 BP – 1040 BP
Islamic calendar
1073 BH – 1072 BH
Javanese calendar
N/A
Julian calendar
N/A
Korean calendar
1914
Minguo calendar
2331 before ROC 民前2331年
Nanakshahi calendar
−1887
Thai solar calendar
123–124
Tibetan calendar
阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) −293 or −674 or −1446 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) −292 or −673 or −1445
Year 420 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. The denomination 420 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.
Year 420BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. The denomination 420BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the...
the 5th century of the Julian calendar 420BC, a year April 20 4-2-0, a classification of steam locomotives 420 (dinghy), a class of double-handed racing...
This article concerns the period 429 BC – 420BC. The Athenians under Xenophon march into Thrace to attack Chalcis. They destroy crops outside Spartolus...
Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike. Built around 420BC, the temple is the earliest fully Ionic temple on the Acropolis. It has...
repulsed again. 86 BC: The Nephites begin to "establish the church more fully" (Alma 4:4). 85 BC 3,500 Nephites join the church. 84 BC The people of the...
Athens: Hermes as psychopomp conducts the deceased, Myrrine, a priestess of Athena, to Hades, c. 430–420BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)...
victory, Nike, made by sculptor Paionios (Paeonius of Mende) between 425 BC and 420BC. Made of Parian marble, the medium gives the statue a translucent and...
285–222 BC). Heron identifies the gastraphetes as the forerunner of the later catapult, which places its invention some unknown time prior to c. 420BC. Unlike...
fragments of Menander. The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind...
Aegisthus also features heavily in the action of Euripides's Electra (c. 420BC), although his character remains offstage. Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes...
Athena even became the common obverse of the Athenian tetradrachms after 510 BC and according to Philochorus, the Athenian tetradrachm was known as glaux...
The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. This century saw the establishment of Pataliputra as a capital of...
550–530/20 BC. Coin of Lycia, c. 520–470/60 BC. Lycia coin, c. 520-470 BC. Struck with worn obverse die. Coin of Lesbos, Ionia, c. 510–80 BC. The Classical...
located in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. It is dated to circa 430–420BC. This sarcophagus, as well as others in the Sidon necropolis, belonged to...
Malachi (c. 420BC) to the appearance of John the Baptist in the early 1st century AD. It is roughly contiguous with the Second Temple period (516 BC-70 AD)...
Gallagher, David (2009-01-01). Avian and Serpentine. Brill Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2709-1. Lucian, Gallus 3, see also scholiast on Aristophanes, Birds 835;...
Protagoras (/prəʊˈtæɡəˌræs/; Greek: Πρωταγόρας; c. 490 BC – c. 420BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as...
early 6th century BC, then adopted by Attic potters. Its production was carried on by Greeks in Apulia until the end of the 4th century BC. Its shape and...
Sappho's time in the seventh century BC, seems to have first become popular in Athens in the mid-fifth century BC. At the start of the festival, the women...
(430–323 BC). The earliest Corinthian capitals, already in fragments and now lost, were found in Bassae in 1811–12; they are dated around 420BC, and are...
the lyre. Protagoras was a Greek philosopher from Abdera, Thrace (c. 490–420BC.) An expert in rhetorics and subjects connected to virtue and political...
struck 325-320 BC Bronze coin of Krannon struck 400-344 BC Hemidrachm coin of Pelinna struck 460-420BC Vale of Tempe List of traditional Greek place names...
capital and finial in the form of a sphinx, 530 BC Sphinxes on the Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon (430–420BC) Sfinxul is a natural rock formation in the Bucegi...
Sarmatia in line with the account by Herodotus. In his Histories (5th century BC) Herodotus claims that the Sauromatae (predecessors of the Sarmatians), who...
(Thespiae, 450–425 BC) Side view of janiform kantharos with Heracles and woman (480–460 BC) Satyr side of a janiform kantharos by Aison (420BC) Silver cantharus...
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