ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) −319 or −700 or −1472 — to — ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) −318 or −699 or −1471
Year446 BC was a year of thepre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Barbatus and Fusus (or, less frequently,year 308Ab urbe condita). The denomination 446 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Achaea achieves its independence fromAthens,[1] whileEuboea, crucial to Athenian control of the sea and food supplies, revolts against Athens.[2]Pericles crosses over to Euboea with his troops.
Megara joins the revolt against Athens.[2] The strategic importance of Megara is immediately demonstrated by the appearance, for the first time in 12 years, of aSpartan army under KingPleistoanax inAttica.[3] The threat from the Spartan army leads Pericles to arrange, by bribery and by negotiation, that Athens will give up its mainland possessions and confine itself to a largely maritime empire.
The Spartan army retires, so Pericles crosses back to Euboea with 50 ships and 5,000 soldiers, cracking down any opposition.[4] He punishes the landowners ofChalcis, who lose their properties, while the residents ofHistiaea are uprooted and replaced by 2,000 Athenian settlers.
After hearing that the Spartan army had accepted bribes from Pericles, Pleistoanax, the King of Sparta, is impeached by the citizens of Sparta, but flees to exile inArcadia.[3][4] His military adviser, Cleandridas also flees and is condemned to death in his absence.
Ducetius, the Hellenised leader of theSiculi, an ancient people of Sicily, returns from exile inCorinth toSicily and colonises Cale Acte on the north coast with Greek and Siculi settlers.[5]
