Editing 430 BC (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* The army of [[Sparta]] loots [[Attica]] for a second time, but [[Pericles]] is not daunted and refuses to revise his initial strategy. Unwilling to engage the Spartan army in battle, he again leads a naval expedition to plunder the coasts of the [[Peloponnesus]], this time taking 100 [[Athens|Athenian]] ships with him.
* [[Potidaea]] finally capitulates to the siege by [[Athens|Athenian]] forces in the winter.
* [[Plague of Athens|An outbreak]] of a [[Pandemic|plague]] hits [[Athens]] and the disease ravages the densely packed city (modern [[DNA]] analyses of material from ancient cemeteries suggest the mortal disease may have been [[Epidemic typhus|typhus]]). The plague wipes out over 30,000 citizens, sailors, and soldiers as well as Pericles' two sons. Roughly one-quarter of the Athenian population dies. The fear of plague is so widespread that the Spartan invasion of Attica is abandoned, their troops being unwilling to risk contact with the diseased enemy.
* Pericles becomes ill from the plague but he recovers, temporarily. He is deposed from his position as General (or [[Strategos]]) but is later reappointed.

=== By topic ===
==== Art ====
* [[Polykleitos|Polyclitus]] completes one of his greatest statues, the ''[[Diadumenos]]'' (''Diadem-bearer'').
* Approximate date &ndash; [[Sophocles]]' drama ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' is first performed in Athens.

==== Religion ====
* Traditional date where scholars believe the [[Hebrew prophet]] known as [[Malachi]] writes the 39th and last book, and last of the [[prophetic books]], of the [[Old Testament]] of the [[Biblical canon]], the [[Book of Malachi]]. Biblical books written between now and the millennium will not be included in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and in some Christian traditions considered [[Biblical apocrypha]].</onlyinclude>