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Year '''447 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Iullus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 307 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 447 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.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* [[Pericles]] leads [[Athens|Athenian]] forces in the expulsion of barbarians from the [[Thrace|Thracian]] peninsula of [[Gallipoli]], in order to establish [[Athenian]] colonists in the region.<ref>Plutarch, ''Parallel Lives'', ''Pericles'' 19.1-2</ref> Thus [[Pericles]] starts a policy of [[cleruchy]] (klerouchos) or "out-settlements". This is a form of colonisation where poor and unemployed people are assisted to emigrate to new regions.
* A revolt breaks out in [[Boeotia]] as the [[Oligarchy|oligarchs]] of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] conspire against the democratic faction in the city. The Athenians, under their general [[Tolmides]], with 1000 [[hoplites]] plus other troops from their allies, march into [[Boeotia]] to take back the towns revolting against [[Athens|Athenian]] control. They capture [[Chaeronea]], but are attacked and defeated by the [[Boeotians]] at [[Battle of Coronea (447 BC)|Coronea]]. As a result, the [[Athens|Athenians]] are forced to give up control of [[Boeotia]] as well as [[Phocis]] and [[Locris]], which all fall under the control of hostile oligarchs who quit the [[Delian League]].<ref>Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 1.27.5</ref>
* The middle component of the [[Long Walls]] from Athens to the port of [[Piraeus]] is completed.

=== By subject ===
==== Literature ====
* [[Achaeus of Eretria]], a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[playwright]], produces his first [[Play (theatre)|play]].

==== Architecture ====
* [[Pericles]] commissions the architects [[Kallikrates]] and [[Iktinos]] to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins on rebuilding the great temple of [[Athena]] (the [[Parthenon]]) on the [[Acropolis]] at [[Athens]] soon afterwards.<ref>J. M. Hurwit, ''The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles'', 87 etc.</ref>
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