431 BC
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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades: 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC
Years: 436 BC 435 BC 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC - 431 BC - 430 BC 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC 426 BC
Events
- Beginning of the Peloponnesian War between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League (which included Sparta)
- The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humors- blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief which dominates medical thinking for centuries.
- Defeat of the Aequians by the Romans under the dictator A. Postumius Tubertus
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Deaths
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