457. Beginning of war of Corinth, Sparta, and Ægina with Athens: Battle of Tanagra, in which the Athenians were defeated.
456. Athenian victory at OEnophyta; the Boeotians defeated by Myronides, who also secures the submission of Phocis and Locris.
455.End of the third Messenian war.
451. Ion of Chios, historian and tragedian, exhibits his first drama.
[E] Date uncertain.