437 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	460s BC  450s BC  440s BC  – 430s BC –  420s BC  410s BC  400s BC
Years:	440 BC 439 BC 438 BC – 437 BC – 436 BC 435 BC 434 BC

437 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	437 BC
Ab urbe condita	317
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 89
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 29
Ancient Greek era	85th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4314
Bengali calendar	−1029
Berber calendar	514
Buddhist calendar	108
Burmese calendar	−1074
Byzantine calendar	5072–5073
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2260 or 2200     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2261 or 2201
Coptic calendar	−720 – −719
Discordian calendar	730
Ethiopian calendar	−444 – −443
Hebrew calendar	3324–3325
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−380 – −379
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2665–2666
Holocene calendar	9564
Iranian calendar	1058 BP – 1057 BP
Islamic calendar	1091 BH – 1089 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1897
Minguo calendar	2348 before ROC 民前2348年
Thai solar calendar	106–107

Year 437 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Fidenas (or, less frequently, year 317 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 437 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

By place

Greece

• Pericles, concerned for Athenian trade with Greek settlements to the East, and in order to counteract a new and possibly threatening Thracian–Scythian alliance, leads Athens' fleet to Pontus on the Black Sea and establishes friendly relations with the Greek cities of the region.

By topic

Architecture

• Mnesikles starts to build Propylaia, Acropolis, Athens. The work is canceled in 432 BC, due to the Peloponnesian war, and thus is never finished.

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