468 BC

Year 468 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbatus and Priscus (or, less frequently, year 286 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 468 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.

Greece

 * Sparta faces trouble near home, chiefly from Arcadia with the support of Argos. Argos regains control of Tiryns.

Roman Republic

 * Antium is captured by Roman forces.

China

 * Zhou Zhen Ding Wang becomes the twenty-eighth sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty.

Literature

 * Sophocles, Greek playwright, defeats Aeschylus for the Athenian Prize.

Deaths

 * Aristides, Athenian statesman (b. 530 BC)