409 BC - Definition and Overview

Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC

Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC

Years: 414 BC 413 BC 412 BC 411 BC 410 BC - 409 BC - 408 BC 407 BC 406 BC 405 BC 404 BC

Events

• Alcibiades recaptures Byzantium for Athens.
• Athenian expedition of Thrasyllus fails to capture Ephesus.
• Pausanias succeeds his father Pleistoanax as king of Sparta
• Hannibal Mago leads a Carthaginian expedition to Sicily in an attempt to gain control of the island

Births

Deaths

• Pleistoanax, king of Sparta