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Year '''432 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Tribunate of Mamercus, Albinus and Medullinus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 322 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 432 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* [[History of Sparta|Sparta]] calls and hosts a conference of the [[Peloponnesian League]]. The conference is attended by Athenian representatives as well as members of the League. Following arguments by [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]] against [[Athens]], a majority of the League members vote to declare that the Athenians had broken the peace.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=M. G. L.|editor-last=Cooley|title=Sparta|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|year=2024|isbn=978-1-00938-277-9|page=216}}</ref>
* The Athenian admiral, [[Phormio]], continues the siege of [[Potidaea]] by blocking the entrance to the [[Gulf of Corinth]]. Meanwhile an Athenian fleet, led by [[Archestratus (general)|Archestratus]], sails for Potidaea. However, instead of attacking Potidaea, they attack the [[Macedon]]ians under [[Perdiccas II of Macedon|Perdiccas II]], who have allied with the Potidaeans. The Athenians capture [[Therma]] (modern [[Thessalonica]]) and then go on to besiege [[Pydna]]. However, as the Athenians are besieging Pydna, they receive news that Corinth has sent a force under the command of [[Aristeus]] to support Potidaea. In response, Athens sends more troops and ships under the command of [[Hipponicus]]. The combined Athenian force sails to Potidaea and lands there. In the ensuing [[Battle of Potidaea]], the Athenians are victorious against Corinth and its allies.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
==== Italy ====
* The [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[colony]] of [[Heraclea (Lucania)|Heraclea]] in Southern Italy is founded by colonists from [[Taranto|Tarentum]] and [[Thurii]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Antonín|last=Bartoněk|title=Classification of the West Greek Dialects at the Time about 350 B.C.|publisher=Adolf M. Hakkert|location=Amsterdam|year=1972|page=90|oclc=781564}}</ref>
==== China ====
* The Chinese [[Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng|Marquis Yi of Zeng]] is buried (approximate date) with lavish tomb items including a 65 set of bronze bells ([[bianzhong]]) with five [[octave]] musical scale and two musical tones that can be produced by each bell. Marquis Yi was from the [[Chu (state)|State of Chu]] during the [[Warring States period|Warring States]] phase of the [[Zhou dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Yu|last1=Hui|first2=Jonathan P.J.|last2=Stock|title=The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2023|isbn=978-0-19066-198-4|page=11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnXYEAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
=== By topic ===
==== Astronomy ====
* [[Meton of Athens]], a Greek mathematician and astronomer, calculates accurately the comparative chronology of the solar and lunar cycles. As a result, he introduces the 19-year [[Metonic cycle]] into the Athenian [[calendar]] as a method of calculating dates. Working with [[Euctemon]], he observes the summer [[solstice]] on 27 June.<ref>{{cite book|first=Leonid|last=Zhmud|title=The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity|publisher=De Gruyter|location=Berlin|year=2006|isbn=978-3-11017-966-8|pages=267–268|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oX28qf7LKdoC}}</ref>
==== Architecture ====
* [[Pheidias]] completes the sculptures that form the decoration of the [[Parthenon]] in [[Athens]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Larry|last=Silver|title=Art in History|location=Englewood Cliffs NJ|publisher=Prentice Hall|year=1993|isbn=978-0-13052-333-4|page=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icLpAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
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== Births ==
* [[Dionysius I of Syracuse|Dionysius]], [[tyrant]] of [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] (d. [[367 BC]]) (approximate birth date)
== Deaths ==
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