443 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	470s BC  460s BC  450s BC  – 440s BC –  430s BC  420s BC  410s BC
Years:	446 BC 445 BC 444 BC – 443 BC – 442 BC 441 BC 440 BC

443 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	443 BC CDXLII BC
Ab urbe condita	311
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 83
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 23
Ancient Greek era	84th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4308
Bengali calendar	−1035
Berber calendar	508
Buddhist calendar	102
Burmese calendar	−1080
Byzantine calendar	5066–5067
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 2254 or 2194     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2255 or 2195
Coptic calendar	−726 – −725
Discordian calendar	724
Ethiopian calendar	−450 – −449
Hebrew calendar	3318–3319
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−386 – −385
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2659–2660
Holocene calendar	9558
Iranian calendar	1064 BP – 1063 BP
Islamic calendar	1097 BH – 1096 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1891
Minguo calendar	2354 before ROC 民前2354年
Thai solar calendar	100–101

Year 443 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Barbatus (or, less frequently, year 311 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 443 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

Roman Republic

• No consuls are elected in Rome, but rather military tribunes with consular power are appointed in their stead. While only patricians could be consuls, some military tribunes were plebeians. These positions had responsibility for the census, a vital function in the financial administration of Rome. So to stop the plebeians from possibly gaining control of the census, the patricians remove from the consuls and tribunes the right to take the census, and rather entrust it to two magistrates, called censores who were to be chosen exclusively from the patricians in Rome.

Italy

• Pericles founds the colony of Thurii near the site of the former city of Sybaris, in southern Italy. Its colonists include Herodotus and Lysias.

Deaths

• Pindar, Greek poet (b. 522 BC)