Aristophanes mentions the burning lens in his play The Clouds ( 424 BC ).

Furthermore, Thucydides mentions the use of tubed flamethrowers in the siege of Delium in 424 BC.

Because of his influence in the Thracian region, Thucydides wrote, he was sent as a strategos ( general ) to Thasos in 424 BC.

Around 430 – 424 BC, a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles.

* 424 BC: Sicily withdraws from the war and expels every foreign power.

* 424 BC: The Athenians try to capture Megara, but are defeated by the Spartans.

Thracian tribes remained divided until King Teres united most of them in the Odrysian kingdom around 500 BC, which later peaked under the leadership of King Sitalces ( 431 – 424 BC ) and of Cotys I ( 383 – 359 BC ).

The earliest preserved System A clay tablets ( BM 36651, 36719, 37032, 37053 ) calculate an ephemeris for the planet Mercury from 424 – 401 BC.

After a reign of forty-five days, he was assassinated in 424 BC by his brother Sogdianus, who in turn was murdered by Darius II.

The last inscription mentioning Artaxerxes I being alive can be dated to 424 BC.

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Artaxerxes I, who died on December 25, 424 BC, was followed by his son Xerxes II.

* Seuthes I, King of Thrace, r. 424 – 410 BC

* 424 BC Aristophanes " lens " is a glass globe filled with water.

Alcibiades took part in the Battle of Potidaea in 432 BC, where Socrates was said to have saved his life and again at the Battle of Delium in 424 BC.

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Year 424 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 424 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.

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About 424 BC it was captured by the Samnites and in 343 BC besought Roman help against its conquerors.

* 424 Pagondas of Thebes crushes Athenian army at the Battle of Delium, Brasidas a Spartan general makes a successful campaign, Cleon exiles Thucydides for 20 years for arriving late

The Spartans had recently stopped their annual invasions of Attica after the Athenians had taken Spartan hostages in the Battle of Sphacteria in 425 and this, coupled with a defeat suffered by the Athenians at the Battle of Delium in 424, had provided the right conditions for a truce.

They had recovered by 424 BC, when the Spartan general Brasidas captured Amphipolis.

After this, Perdiccas was allied to the Spartans and, in 424, helped the Spartan Brasidas to take Amphipolis from the Athenians, one of her most important colonies, mainly for its ready access to timber for her fleets.

In the winter of 424 – 423, around the same time as the Battle of Delium, the Spartan general Brasidas besieged Amphipolis, an Athenian colony in Thrace on the Strymon river.

In 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas after crossing the entire Greek peninsula sieged and conquered Amphipolis.

Archaeological excavations have shown the site of Lamia to have been inhabited since at least the Bronze Age ( 3rd millennium BC ), but the city was first mentioned after the earthquake of 424 BC, when it was an important Spartan military base.

The first mention of Dion in history comes from Thucydides, who reports that it was the first city reached by the Spartan general Brasidas after crossing from Thessaly into Macedon on his way through the realm of his ally Perdiccas II during his expedition against the Athenian colonies of Thrace in 424 BC.

The Church of the East declared independence from the churches of the Roman Empire at its general council in 424, which was before the Council of Ephesus in 431, and so had nothing to do with the theology declared at that Council.

The constituency boundaries for the area were re-drawn for 1997 general election, and Austin won the new seat of Erith and Thamesmead with a majority of 17, 424.

All the same, in 424 BC, the 700 helots who served Brasidas in Chalcidice were emancipated, and they were henceforth known as the " Brasidians ".

During the Peloponnesian war it formed a base for Brasidas in his expedition of 424 and refuge for the citizens of Mende and Poteidaea that had rebelled against the Athenians ( Thu.

Athens hoped they could fortify more towns in preparation for future attacks from Brasidas, and the Spartans hoped Athens would finally return the prisoners taken at the Battle of Sphacteria earlier in 424.

In 424 BC, Demosthenes and Hippocrates attempted to capture Megara, but were defeated by Brasidas.

The Old Oligarch says that lengthy land expeditions cannot be supplied against a sea power ; since Brasidas marched the length of Greece in 424 BC, when Xenophon was about five, the Old Oligarch presumably wrote before that date.

It was the culmination of events that began in 424 BC with the capture of Amphipolis by the Spartans.

Based on the above mentioned German study of 1928 they maintained that “ A thorough inquiry has led to the conclusion that the number of “ civilian ” deaths traceable to the war was 424, 000, to which number must be added about 200, 000 deaths caused by the influenza epidemic ” Not included in the figure of 763, 000 famine deaths are additional civilian deaths during the blockade of Germany after the armistice from November 1918 until June 1919.

Originally the church of Sassanid Persia, the Church of the East declared itself independent of other churches in 424 and over the next century became affiliated with Nestorianism, a Christological doctrine advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431, which had been declared heretical in the Roman Empire.

In the novel, the Biblical number of the beast turns out to be, not 666, but, or 10, 314, 424, 798, 490, 535, 546, 171, 949, 056, which is the number of parallel universes accessible through the continua device.

Some of these peaks exceed 6, 000 meters, and two-Illimani ( 6, 462 m ), which overlooks the city of La Paz, and Illampu ( 6, 424 m )- have large glaciers on their upper slopes.

There were 4, 424 households out of which 45. 90 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59. 70 % were married couples living together, 8. 80 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 26. 40 % were non-families.

Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island ( 980 miles ) and Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which includes Cape Cod ( 550 miles ), Chippewa County, Michigan ( 456 miles ), and Keweenaw County, Michigan ( 424 miles ) have more.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 424 square miles ( 1, 097 km² ), of which 423 square miles ( 1, 095 km² ) is land and 1 square mile ( 3 km² ) ( 0. 24 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1, 430 square miles ( 3, 703 km² ), of which 1, 424 square miles ( 3, 688 km² ) is land and 6 square miles ( 16 km² ) ( 0. 42 %) is water.

There were 2, 424 households, out of which 1, 583 ( 65. 3 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1, 309 ( 54. 0 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 457 ( 18. 9 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 319 ( 13. 2 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

There were 424 households out of which 50. 2 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58. 3 % were married couples living together, 9. 7 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 25. 0 % were non-families.

There were 424 households out of which 18. 4 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43. 2 % were married couples living together, 6. 8 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 47. 9 % were non-families.

There were 1, 424 households out of which 45. 6 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58. 5 % were married couples living together, 14. 7 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 21. 6 % were non-families.

There were 1, 024 households, out of which 247 ( 24. 1 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 424 ( 41. 4 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 107 ( 10. 4 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 62 ( 6. 1 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

There were 1, 424 households out of which 15. 7 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44. 1 % were married couples living together, 6. 4 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 45. 9 % were non-families.

There were 1, 424 households out of which 24. 8 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49. 8 % were married couples living together, 7. 7 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 38. 3 % were non-families.

There were 1, 424 households out of which 35. 7 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67. 7 % were married couples living together, 8. 4 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 20. 8 % were non-families.

There were 424 households out of which 32. 5 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70. 3 % were married couples living together, 4. 2 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 21. 2 % were non-families.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total area of 69. 029 square miles ( 178. 785 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), of which, 68. 424 square miles ( 177. 218 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of it is land and 0. 605 square miles ( 1. 568 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of it ( 0. 88 %) is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Far Hills borough had a total area of 4. 881 square miles ( 12. 641 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), of which, 4. 797 square miles ( 12. 424 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of it is land and 0. 084 square miles ( 0. 217 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of it ( 1. 72 %) is water.

There were 424 households out of which 38. 0 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74. 5 % were married couples living together, 4. 2 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 20. 0 % were non-families.

There were 424 households out of which 164 had children under the age of 18 living with them.