{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2011}} {{Year nav|-436}} {{BC year in topic|436}} __NOTOC__ Year '''436 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Cornelius''' (or, less frequently, '''year 318 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 436 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 == <onlyinclude>
=== By place === ==== Greece ==== * Following [[Pericles]]' visit to the [[Black Sea]], a large [[Athens|Athenian]] [[colony]] is founded at [[Amphipolis]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cole |first=J. W. |date=1974 |title=Perdiccas and Athens |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1087231 |journal=Phoenix |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=55–72 |doi=10.2307/1087231 |jstor=1087231 |issn=0031-8299|url-access=subscription }}</ref> This is disconcertingly close to an outpost of Corinthian influence at [[Potidaea]] in the [[Chalcidice]]. [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]] feels it is being indirectly pressured by Athens. </onlyinclude>
== Births == * [[Isocrates]], [[Athens|Athenian]] [[orator]] (d. [[338 BC]]) * [[Artaxerxes II]], king of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]] (approximate date) (d. [[358 BC]])
== Deaths == * [[Zengcius]], Chinese philosopher (b. [[505 BC]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zhizhi |first=Xiao |date=2012-05-01 |title=Huang Xing and Traditional Chinese Culture |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jciea-2012-030107/html |journal=Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=75–84 |doi=10.1515/jciea-2012-030107 |issn=2747-7576|hdl=10112/6324 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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