430 BC

Centuries:	6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades:	460s BC 450s BC 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC
Years:	433 BC 432 BC 431 BC - 430 BC - 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC

430 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**430 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	430 BC
Ab urbe condita	324
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2273 – -2272
Berber calendar	521
Buddhist calendar	115
Burmese calendar	-1067
Chinese calendar	2207/2267 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2208/2268 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-713 – -712
Ethiopian calendar	-437 – -436
Hebrew calendar	3331 – 3332
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-374 – -373
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2672 – 2673
Holocene calendar	9571
Iranian calendar	1051 BP – 1050 BP
Islamic calendar	1083 BH – 1082 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1904
Thai solar calendar	114
v • d • e

[edit] Events

The army of Sparta loots Attica for a second time, but Pericles is not daunted and refuses to revise his initial strategy. Unwilling to engage the Spartan army in battle, he again leads a naval expedition to plunder the coasts of the Peloponnesus, this time taking 100 Athenian ships with him.
Potidaea finally capitulates to the siege by Athenian forces in the winter.
An outbreak of a plague hits Athens and the disease ravages the densely packed city (modern DNA analyses of material from ancient cemeteries suggest the mortal disease may have been typhus). The plague wipes out over 30,000 citizens, sailors and soldiers as well as Pericles' two sons. Roughly one quarter of the Athenian population dies. The fear of plague is so widespread that the Spartan invasion of Attica is abandoned, their troops being unwilling to risk contact with the diseased enemy.
Pericles becomes ill from the plague but he recovers, temporarily. He is deposed from his position as General (or Strategos), but is later reappointed.

Polyclitus completes one of his greatest statues, the Diadumenos (Diadem-bearer).