442 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC
Decades:	460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC
Years:	445 BC 444 BC 443 BC 442 BC 441 BC 440 BC 439 BC

442 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	442 BC CDXLII BC
Ab urbe condita	312
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 84
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 24
Ancient Greek era	84th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4309
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1034
Berber calendar	509
Buddhist calendar	103
Burmese calendar	−1079
Byzantine calendar	5067–5068
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2256 or 2049     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2257 or 2050
Coptic calendar	−725 – −724
Discordian calendar	725
Ethiopian calendar	−449 – −448
Hebrew calendar	3319–3320
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−385 – −384
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2659–2660
Holocene calendar	9559
Iranian calendar	1063 BP – 1062 BP
Islamic calendar	1096 BH – 1095 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1892
Minguo calendar	2353 before ROC 民前2353年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1909
Thai solar calendar	101–102
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) −315 or −696 or −1468     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) −314 or −695 or −1467

Year 442 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Helva (or, less frequently, year 312 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 442 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

By place

Greece

• As a result of his failure to effectively challenge Pericles, the Athenian citizens ostracise Thucydides for 10 years and Pericles is once again unchallenged in Athenian politics.

By topic

Literature

• Sophocles writes Antigone.

Deaths

• Zhou zhen ding wang, king of the Zhou dynasty of China