Amyrtaeus frees Egypt from Persia
The last sixty years of native pharaohs begin
The Egyptian Amyrtaeus of Sais rebelled against Darius II, drove the Persians out of Memphis with Cretan mercenaries and in 404 BC proclaimed himself pharaoh. Persia, distracted by the revolt of Cyrus the Younger, could not retake the country, and Egypt stayed independent for six more decades.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 415 BC–413 BC The Athenian Sicilian Expedition — 11 years earlier
- c. 387 BC Plato founds the Academy — 17 years later
Asia
- 403 BC The Partition of Jin opens the Warring States — 1 year later
Alive at the time
- Socrates (aged 66)
- Plato (aged 24)
- Hippocrates (aged 56)
- Democritus (aged 56)
- Aspasia (aged 66)
- Mozi (aged 66)
- Antisthenes (aged 41)
- Diogenes of Sinope (aged 8)