456 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	480s BC  470s BC  460s BC  – 450s BC –  440s BC  430s BC  420s BC
Years:	459 BC 458 BC 457 BC – 456 BC – 455 BC 454 BC 453 BC

456 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	456 BC CDLV BC
Ab urbe condita	298
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 70
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 10
Ancient Greek era	81st Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4295
Bengali calendar	−1048
Berber calendar	495
Buddhist calendar	89
Burmese calendar	−1093
Byzantine calendar	5053–5054
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2241 or 2181     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2242 or 2182
Coptic calendar	−739 – −738
Discordian calendar	711
Ethiopian calendar	−463 – −462
Hebrew calendar	3305–3306
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−399 – −398
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2646–2647
Holocene calendar	9545
Iranian calendar	1077 BP – 1076 BP
Islamic calendar	1110 BH – 1109 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1878
Minguo calendar	2367 before ROC 民前2367年
Thai solar calendar	87–88

Year 456 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lactuca and Caeliomontanus (or, less frequently, year 298 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 456 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

• The first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis. It measures about 9 metres high and is the largest statue yet to be erected in Athens.
• The temple of Zeus in Olympia is finished.

Births

• Aristophanes, Greek playwright (d. c. 386 BC)

Deaths

• Aeschylus, Greek playwright (b. 525 BC)