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459 BC — Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta .459 BC — Destruction of the Sicilian town of Morgantina by Douketios , leader of the Sikels , according to Diodoros Siculus .
459 BC — Ezra leads the second body of Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem .
458 BC — Greek playwright Aeschylus completes the Oresteia , a trilogy that tells the story of a family blood feud. The plays will have a great influence on future writers.458 BC — Cincinnatus is named dictator of the Roman Republic in order to defend it against Aequi . Sixteen days later, after defeating the invaders at the Battle of Mons Algidus , he resigns and returns to his farm.
457 BC — Athenian statesman Pericles ' greatest reform, allowing common people to serve in any state office, inaugurates Golden Age of Ancient Athens .457 BC — Battle of Tanagra — The Spartans defeat the Athenians , near Thebes .
457 BC — Battle of Oenophyta — The Athenians defeat the Thebans and take control of Boeotia .
457 BC — Decree of Artaxerxes I to re-establish the city government of Jerusalem . See Ezra 7, Daniel 9 and Nehemiah 1 in Old Testament .
455 BC — A thirty years' truce concluded between Athens and Lacedaemon .455 BC — Euripides presents his first known tragedy , Peliades Athenian festival of Dionysia .
454 BC — Athens loses a fleet and possibly as many as 50 000 men in a failed attempt to aid an Egyptian revolt against Persia .454 BC — The treasury of the Delian League is moved from Delos to Athens .
454 BC — Hostilities between Segesta and Selinunte , two Greek cities on Sicily .
453 BC — Taiyuan , a city in China , gets flooded.451 BC — Athens makes peace with Sparta and wages a war against Persia .451 BC — The decemviri come to power in the Roman Republic . They enact the twelve tables , the foundation of Roman Law .
450 BC — Battle of Salamis : Athenians under Cimon defeat the Persian fleet.c. 450 BC — Perdiccas II succeeds Alexander I as king of Macedonia .
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