415 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 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC
Years: 420 BC 419 BC 418 BC 417 BC 416 BC - 415 BC - 414 BC 413 BC 412 BC 411 BC 410 BC
Events
- End of the Peace of Nicias
- Beginning of the Athenian military expedition to Sicily
- Athenian politician Alcibiades is condemned to death and flees to Sparta
- Melos, refusing the Athenian demand to join the Delian League, is attacked and conquered. The surviving male inhabitants are slain and the women and children enslaved—an atrocity that shocks the sensibilities of her contemporaries.