mar 21, 424 BC - ANCHOR Solar Eclipse 7th Year Death of Artaxerxes I
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Queen Esther wife of Xerxes Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence by Gerard GertouxThe death of Artaxerxes is fixed precisely by Thucydides just at the end of the 7th year of the Peloponnesian War and before a partial solar eclipse in March 424 BCE according to his chronological system (The Peloponnesian War IV:50-52).
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Thucydides IV:52
Early in the ensuing summer there was a partial eclipse of the sun at the time of the new moon,1 and within the first ten days of the same month an [2] earthquake.2
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Date:
mar 21, 424 BC
Now
~ 2450 years ago
