Persia. 454 BC: The treasury of the Delian League is moved from Delos to Athens. 454 BC: Hostilities between Segesta and Selinunte, two Greek cities on Sicily. 453 BC: Taiyuan, a city in China, gets flooded. 451 BC: Athens makes peace with Sparta and wages a war against Persia. 451 BC: The decemviri come to power in the Roman Republic. They enact the twelve tables, the foundation of Roman Law. 450 BC: Wars of the Delian League: Athenians under Cimon defeat the Persian fleet. 450 BC: Perdiccas II succeeds Alexander I as king of Macedonia (approximate date). 450 BC to 325 BC: Olmecs leave La Venta, and it becomes depopulated by 325 BC. 440s BC 449 BC: The Peace of Callias between the Delian League and Persia ends the Persian Wars. 449 BC: Construction begins on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens. 449 BC: The Twelve Tables are promulgated to the people of Rome—the first public laws of the Roman Republic. 449 BC: Romans revolt against the decemvirate. The decemvirs resign and the tribunate is re-established. 449 BC: Herodotus completes his History, which records the events concerning the Persian War. 448 BC: Phidias finishes a 9 meter high statue of Athena on the Acropolis. 447 BC: Athens begins construction of the Parthenon, at the initiative of Pericles. 447 BC: Battle of Coronea—The Athenians are driven out of Boeotia. 447 BC: Achaeus of Eretria, a Greek playwright, shows his first play. 445 BC: Pericles declares Thirty Years' Peace between Athens and Sparta. 445 BC: Artaxerxes I gives Nehemiah permission to rebuild Jerusalem. 445 BC: The Lacus Curtius is created by a lightning strike in Rome. It is consecrated by Gaius, Mettius or Marcus Curtius. 443 BC: The Roman Republic creates the office of censor, initially exclusive to patricians. 443 BC: Foundation of the Greek colony of Thurii in Italy. Its colonists include Herodotus and Lysias. 442 BC: Sophocles writes Antigone. 441 BC: King Ai of Zhou becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China but dies before the year's end. 440 BC: Famine in Rome. 440 BC: King Kao of Zhou becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. 440 BC: Democritus proposes the existence of indivisible particles, which he calls atoms. 430s BC 439 BC: Cincinnatus again becomes dictator of the Roman Republic; during his term he defeats the Volsci. 439 BC: According to legend, Gaius Servilius Ahala saves Rome