468 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	490s BC  480s BC  470s BC  – 460s BC –  450s BC  440s BC  430s BC
Years:	471 BC 470 BC 469 BC – 468 BC – 467 BC 466 BC 465 BC

468 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	468 BC
Ab urbe condita	286
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 58
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 18
Ancient Greek era	78th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4283
Bengali calendar	−1060
Berber calendar	483
Buddhist calendar	77
Burmese calendar	−1105
Byzantine calendar	5041–5042
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2229 or 2169     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2230 or 2170
Coptic calendar	−751 – −750
Discordian calendar	699
Ethiopian calendar	−475 – −474
Hebrew calendar	3293–3294
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−411 – −410
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2634–2635
Holocene calendar	9533
Iranian calendar	1089 BP – 1088 BP
Islamic calendar	1122 BH – 1121 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1866
Minguo calendar	2379 before ROC 民前2379年
Thai solar calendar	75–76

Year 468 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbatus and Priscus (or, less frequently, year 286 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 468 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

• Sparta faces trouble near home, chiefly from Arcadia with the support of Argos. Argos regains control of Tiryns.

Roman Republic

• Antium is captured by Roman forces.

China

• Zhou Zhen Ding Wang becomes the twenty-eighth sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty.

By topic

Literature

• Sophocles, Greek playwright, defeats Aeschylus for the Athenian Prize.

Deaths

• Aristides, Athenian statesman (b. 530 BC)

References