406 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	430s BC  420s BC  410s BC  – 400s BC –  390s BC  380s BC  370s BC
Years:	409 BC 408 BC 407 BC – 406 BC – 405 BC 404 BC 403 BC

406 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

406 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	406 BC
Ab urbe condita	348
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4345
Bahá'í calendar	-2249–-2248
Bengali calendar	-998
Berber calendar	545
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	139
Burmese calendar	-1043
Byzantine calendar	5103–5104
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (2231/2291) — to — 乙亥年 (2232/2292)
Coptic calendar	-689–-688
Ethiopian calendar	-413–-412
Hebrew calendar	3355–3356
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-349–-348
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2696–2697
Holocene calendar	9595
Iranian calendar	1027 BP – 1026 BP
Islamic calendar	1059 BH – 1058 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1928
Minguo calendar	2317 before ROC 民前2317年
Thai solar calendar	138

Year 406 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Greece

• Callicratidas becomes the navarch of the Spartan fleet, replacing Lysander.
• Athens wins the Battle of Arginusae.
• Returning to Athens after the battle, Theramenes leads Athenian anger against the eight generals who were in the battle. They did not get survivors from the broken ships after the battle. The Athenian generals are put to death.
• Sparta asks for peace. Cleophon says no.

Roman Republic

• The Roman forces begin a decade-long siege against Veii.

Carthage

• The Carthaginians again invade Sicily and attack Agrigentum. Plague breaks out in their camp and Hannibal Mago dies.

Deaths

• Euripides, Athenian playwright (b. c. 480 BC)
• Hannibal Mago, Carthaginian general
• Sophocles, Athenian dramatist and politician (b. c. 495 BC)