459 BC.

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This page concerns the year 459 of the Julian Proleptic calendar.

Events

Spring: The beginning of the war between Athens and Mégare against Corinth and Epidaure. Megara calls Athens for help against Corinth. After a failure in Halieis, south of the Argolid, Athens was victorious in a naval battle at Kekryphaleia in the Saronic Gulf.

Summer (probable date): expedition of an Athenian fleet commanded by Charitimides against the Persians to Cyprus and Egypt. Athens sent 200 ships and an army to support the Inaros revolt, which raised Egypt against the Persians. Memphis is taken first. The attempt eventually failed (454 B.C.).

October 28: The Consulate of Q. Fabius Vibulanus (for the third time) and L. Cornelius Maluginensis Uritus (Cossus) began in Rome.

Capitulation of the Messenians cut off on Mount Ithome; a large number leaves Peloponnese for Sicily or the Gulf of Corinth.
In Sicily, the Hegemon of the Sikeles or Sicules, Douketios, founded the city of Menainon (Menaenum) by distributing the land among the citizens, and stomped the Sicel city of Morgantina (459-458 B.C.).
The Eques take Tusculum.

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