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Year '''456 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 Lactuca and Caeliomontanus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 298 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 456 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 ====
* The first of the Athenian sculptor [[Phidias]]' monuments to [[Athena]], the bronze ''[[Athena Promachos]]'', is placed on the Athenian [[Acropolis]], measuring about 9 metres high.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Rosalie F. |last2=III |first2=Charles F. Baker |title=Ancient Greeks: Creating the Classical Tradition |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press, US|isbn=9780195099409 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ancientgreeks00bake/page/108 108] |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientgreeks00bake|url-access=registration |language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Temple of Zeus, Olympia|temple of Zeus]] in [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] is finished.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ancient History in depth: Ancient Greek Olympics Gallery |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/greek_olympics_gallery_01.shtml |website=BBC History |access-date=27 August 2018}}</ref>

== Births ==
* [[Aristophanes]], Greek playwright (d. c. [[386 BC]])<ref name=Xu>{{cite book |last1=Xu |first1=Guobin |last2=Chen |first2=Yanhui |last3=Xu |first3=Lianhua |title=Understanding Western Culture: Philosophy, Religion, Literature and Organizational Culture |date=2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9789811081507 |page=150 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIBSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150|language=en}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[Aeschylus]], [[Greek theatre|Greek]] [[playwright]] (b. [[525 BC]])<ref name=Xu />

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