453 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:	456 BC 455 BC 454 BC – 453 BC – 452 BC 451 BC 450 BC

453 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	453 BC CDLII BC
Ab urbe condita	301
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 73
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 13
Ancient Greek era	81st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4298
Bengali calendar	−1045
Berber calendar	498
Buddhist calendar	92
Burmese calendar	−1090
Byzantine calendar	5056–5057
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 2244 or 2184     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2245 or 2185
Coptic calendar	−736 – −735
Discordian calendar	714
Ethiopian calendar	−460 – −459
Hebrew calendar	3308–3309
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−396 – −395
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2649–2650
Holocene calendar	9548
Iranian calendar	1074 BP – 1073 BP
Islamic calendar	1107 BH – 1106 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1881
Minguo calendar	2364 before ROC 民前2364年
Thai solar calendar	90–91

Year 453 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quinctilius and Trigeminus (or, less frequently, year 301 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 453 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, the ruler of Athens, bestows generous wages on all Athens' citizens who serve as jurymen on the Heliaia (the supreme court of Athens).
• Achaea, on the southern shore of the Corinthian Gulf, becomes part of what is effectively now the Athenian Empire. The Delian League had changed from an alliance into an empire clearly under the control of Athens.

China

• May 8 – The Chinese city of Jinyang is severely flooded in the Battle of Jinyang, where the elite families of Jin, Zhao, Zhi, Wei and Han fight. The Wei and the Han swap allegiances to side with Zhao and eliminate the Zhi house, ending the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.