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 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

456 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	456 BC
Ab urbe condita	298
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2299 – -2298
Berber calendar	495
Buddhist calendar	89
Burmese calendar	-1093
Byzantine calendar	5053 – 5054
Chinese calendar	甲年 (2181/2241) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2182/2242)
Coptic calendar	-739 – -738
Ethiopian calendar	-463 – -462
Hebrew calendar	3305 – 3306
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-400 – -399
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2646 – 2647
Holocene calendar	9545
Iranian calendar	1077 BP – 1076 BP
Islamic calendar	1110 BH – 1109 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1878
Thai solar calendar	88
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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)