# Handbook chronology places Democritus' birth about 460 BCE; this catalog stores that as received dating, not a civil register

Date: 460

## The fact

About 460 BCE is handbook birth, not a surviving register. Democritus’s documented role is: Apollodorus-style later dating is the public year. He did not file a birth certificate. Do not invent a birthday Fact with day precision. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Democritus's documented role is: Apollodorus-style later dating is the public year. He did not file a birth certificate.

## Context

Later chronological tables. Named others on the file: Later chronographers. The public setting is the file around -0460-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Handbook chronology places Democritus' birth about 460 BCE; this catalog stores that as received dating, not a civil register. The setting of Handbook chronology places Democritus' birth about 460 BCE; this catalog stores that as received dating, not a civil register is the public file around -0460-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and SEP give conventional years with uncertainty. Official: Britannica — Democritus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Democritus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Democritus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Democritus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Democritus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Democritus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Chronology honesty. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is An honest dating note is an education-source-limit path of low weight. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Low confidence on the exact year. Established: a sourced public record of Handbook chronology places Democritus' birth about 460 BCE; this catalog stores that as received dating, not a civil register under -0460-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Handbook chronology places Democritus' birth about 460 BCE; this catalog stores that as received dating, not a civil register under -0460-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not invent a birthday Fact with day precision. Mixed effects of Handbook chronology places Democritus' birth about 460 BCE; this catalog stores that as received dating, not a civil register are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Handbook chronology places Democritus' birth about 460 BCE; this catalog stores that as received dating, not a civil register. Naming Democritus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0460-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Democritus: https://factrail.ai/people/democritus

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Democritus
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dem-conventional-years