Editing 412 BC

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Year '''412 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Ambustus and Pacilus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 342 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 412 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Persian Empire ====
* The [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] under [[Darius II]] see their opportunity to play off one [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] city-state against another and to recover control of the Greek cities of [[Asia Minor]], which have been under [[Athens|Athenian]] control since [[449 BC]]. The [[satrap]]s of Asia Minor, [[Tissaphernes]] and [[Pharnabazus (5th century BC)|Pharnabazus]], are ordered to collect overdue [[tribute]].
* The [[Sparta]]ns sign a treaty of mutual help with the Persian satrap of Lower Asia, Tissaphernes. By the treaty of [[Miletus]], Persia is given complete freedom in western Asia Minor in return for agreeing to pay for seamen to man the [[Peloponnesian]] fleet.

==== Greece ====
* [[Alcibiades]] helps stir up revolts amongst [[Athens]]' allies in [[Ionia]], on the west coast of [[Asia Minor]]. However, Alcibiades loses the confidence of the [[Sparta]]ns and antagonises their king [[Agis II]]. As a result, he flees to the court of the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian]] [[satrap]] [[Tissaphernes]].<ref name="Th8.45">{{Cite book |last=Thucydides |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/Book_8 |title=History of the Peloponnesian War}}</ref> Alcibiades advises Tissaphernes to withdraw his support from Sparta while conspiring with the [[oligarchic]] party in Athens, as Sparta's allied cities break away in a series of revolts.
* The [[Athens|Athenians]] vote to use their last reserves to build a new fleet.
* [[Clazomenae]] revolts against Athens.<ref>{{cite book |author=Vanessa B. Gorman |title=Miletos, the ornament of Ionia: history of the city to 400 BCE |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]] |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-472-11199-2 |page=122}}</ref> After a brief resistance, however, it again acknowledges the Athenian supremacy.
* An [[412 BC epidemic|epidemic]] of an unknown disease hits Northern Greece.

==== Rome ====
* The [[412 BC epidemic|epidemic]] hits the [[Roman Republic]] and causes a food shortage.
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== Births ==

* Diogenes of Sinope

== Deaths ==
*

== References ==
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