Editing Alcibiades (section)

== Timeline of Alcibiades' life (c. 450–404 BC) ==
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  at:450 text:450 BC – Born in Athens
  at:447 text:c. 447 BC – Lost his father—Pericles became his guardian
  at:434 text:c. 434 BC – Saved while fighting at Potidaea by Socrates
  at:424 text:c. 424 BC – Saved Socrates while fighting at Delium 
  at:422 text:c. 422 BC – Entered politics
  at:420 text:420 BC – Led a failed alliance with Argos, Mantinea, and Elis
  at:417 text:c. 417 BC – Ostracised Hyperbolos in collaboration with Nicias
  at:415 text:415 BC – Led the fleet sailing to Italy—defected to Sparta
  at:412 text:412 BC – Fled from Sparta and escaped to Tissaphernes 
  at:411 text:411 BC – Reinstated as an Athenian general
  at:410 text:410 BC – Defeated the Spartans at Abydos and Cyzicus
  at:409 text:409 BC – Siege of Chalcedon, Selymria, and Byzantium
  at:408 text:408 BC – Successful siege of Byzantium
  at:407 text:407 BC – Returned victorious to Athens
  at:406 text:406 BC – Sent to exile after the defeat at Notium
  at:405 text:405 BC – Tried in vain to help the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami
  at:404 text:404 BC – Murdered in Phrygia

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