439 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
439 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar439 BC
CDXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita315
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 87
- PharaohArtaxerxes I of Persia, 27
Ancient Greek era85th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4312
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1031
Berber calendar512
Buddhist calendar106
Burmese calendar−1076
Byzantine calendar5070–5071
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
2259 or 2052
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
2260 or 2053
Coptic calendar−722 – −721
Discordian calendar728
Ethiopian calendar−446 – −445
Hebrew calendar3322–3323
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−382 – −381
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2662–2663
Holocene calendar9562
Iranian calendar1060 BP – 1059 BP
Islamic calendar1093 BH – 1092 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1895
Minguo calendar2350 before ROC
民前2350年
Nanakshahi calendar−1906
Thai solar calendar104–105
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
−312 or −693 or −1465
    — to —
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
−311 or −692 or −1464

Year 439 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lanatus and Barbatus (or, less frequently, year 315 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 439 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events[edit]

By place[edit]

Greece[edit]

  • As a result of Persian assistance to Samos, it takes the Athenian army nine months to successfully complete its siege of Samos and force the Samians to surrender. Samos becomes a tributary of Athens.

Roman Republic[edit]

  • Spurius Maelius, a wealthy Roman plebeian, tries to buy popular support with the aim of making himself king. During the severe famine affecting Rome, he buys up a large store of grain and sells it at a low price to the people of Rome – the first time this had been done in Rome. This leads Lucius Minucius, the patrician praefectus annonae ("president of the market"), to accuse Maelius of seeking to take over the government.
  • Maelius is summoned before Cincinnatus (who has again become dictator of the Roman Republic, to put down a revolt by the plebeians), but refuses to appear. Shortly thereafter, Maelius is killed by Gaius Servilius Ahala and his house is burnt to the ground.


Births[edit]

Spurius Maelius - was the youngest man to ever attempt taking over Rome

Deaths[edit]

Spurius Maelius - was the youngest man to ever attempt taking over Rome

References[edit]