Years 440 a. c.

The years 440 BC passed between the years 449 B.C. C. and 440 a. c.

Events

• 449-448 B.C.: Peace of Calias between Athens and the Persians; the first refrained from military intervention in Persia and the second recognized the Athenian supremacy in the League of Delos.
• 447-446 B.C.: In Ancient Greece, Eubea is subdued and subject. Athens loses control over Mégara.
• 447 to 432 BC: In Athens the Parthenon is built.
• 446-445 a.m. C: Athens and Sparta hold the Peace of the Thirty Years between Athens and Sparta. New Sibaris Foundation in the Magna Greece.
• 445 B.C.: Hostilities between the cities of Turios and Tarento begin for the possession of Siris.
• 440 to 439 a. C.: Samos and Byzantium are softened and subjected.

Important characters

• 448 a. C. (10 May, full moon day of the month of visakha [April-May]): the most likely date of the birth of Buddha, a Nepali religious founder of Buddhism (f. 368 BC).