419 BC

Year 419 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Lanatus, Rutilus, Tricipitinus and Axilla (or, less frequently, year 335 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 419 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.

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
Years:	422 BC 421 BC 420 BC 419 BC 418 BC 417 BC 416 BC

419 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	419 BC CDXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	335
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 107
- Pharaoh	Darius II of Persia, 5
Ancient Greek era	90th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4332
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1011
Berber calendar	532
Buddhist calendar	126
Burmese calendar	−1056
Byzantine calendar	5090–5091
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2279 or 2072     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2280 or 2073
Coptic calendar	−702 – −701
Discordian calendar	748
Ethiopian calendar	−426 – −425
Hebrew calendar	3342–3343
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−362 – −361
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2682–2683
Holocene calendar	9582
Iranian calendar	1040 BP – 1039 BP
Islamic calendar	1072 BH – 1071 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1915
Minguo calendar	2330 before ROC 民前2330年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1886
Thai solar calendar	124–125
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) −292 or −673 or −1445     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) −291 or −672 or −1444

Events

By place

Greece

• Despite the Peace of Nicias still being in effect, Sparta's King Agis II gathers a strong army at Philus and descends upon Argos by marching at night from the north. His allied Boeotian forces fail him, but he is able to conclude a treaty with Argos. In 419 BC, the Argives, at the instigation of Alcibiades, attacked Epidaurus; and Agis with a large force from Lacedaemon set out and marched to the frontier city of Leuctra. No one, Thucydides tells us, knew the purpose of this expedition. It was probably to make a diversion in favour of Epidaurus.

By topic

Drama

• Euripides' play Andromache is performed.
• Sophocles' play Electra is performed. The play takes its theme from The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus.