439 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:	442 BC 441 BC 440 BC – 439 BC – 438 BC 437 BC 436 BC

439 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	439 BC CDXXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	315
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 87
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 27
Ancient Greek era	85th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4312
Bengali calendar	−1031
Berber calendar	512
Buddhist calendar	106
Burmese calendar	−1076
Byzantine calendar	5070–5071
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2258 or 2198     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2259 or 2199
Coptic calendar	−722 – −721
Discordian calendar	728
Ethiopian calendar	−446 – −445
Hebrew calendar	3322–3323
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−382 – −381
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2663–2664
Holocene calendar	9562
Iranian calendar	1060 BP – 1059 BP
Islamic calendar	1093 BH – 1092 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1895
Minguo calendar	2350 before ROC 民前2350年
Thai solar calendar	104–105

Year 439 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lanatus and Barbatus (or, less frequently, year 315 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 439 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

• As a result of Persian assistance to Samos, it takes the Athenian army nine months to successfully complete its siege of Samos and force the Samians to surrender. Samos becomes a tributary of Athens.

Roman Republic

• Spurius Maelius, a wealthy Roman plebeian, tries to buy popular support with the aim of making himself king. During the severe famine affecting Rome, he buys up a large store of grain and sells it at a low price to the people of Rome – the first time this had been done in Rome. This leads Lucius Minucius, the patrician praefectus annonae ("president of the market"), to accuse Maelius of seeking to take over the government.
• Maelius is summoned before Cincinnatus (who has again become dictator of the Roman Republic, to put down a revolt by the plebeians), but refuses to appear. Shortly thereafter, Maelius is killed by Gaius Servilius Ahala and his house is burnt to the ground.