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Events and trends

Significant People

Births

Deaths

References

Events and trends

★ 489 BC — Euripides writes Orestes and The Cyclops.

★ 489 BC — Cities of Rhodes unite and start construction of the new city of Rhodes.

★ 488 BC — Leonidas I succeeds his brother Cleomenes I as king of Sparta after Cleomenes is judged insane.

★ 487 BC — Egypt revolts against the Persians.

★ 487 BC — Aegina and Athens go to war.

★ 487 BC — Athenian Archonship becomes elective by lot, an important milestone in the move towards radical Athenian democracy.

★ 486 BC — First part of the Grand Canal of China is built.

★ 486 BC — Xerxes I succeeds Darius I as Great King of Persia.

★ 486 BC — Egypt revolts against Persian rule.

★ 486 BC — First Buddhist council at Rajagaha, under the patronage of King Ajatashatru. Oral tradition established for the first time.

★ October, 485 BC — Xerxes I succeeds Darius as King of Persia.

★ 484 BC — Athenian playwright Aeschylus wins a poetry prize.

★ 484 BC — Xerxes I abolishes the Kingdom of Babel and removes the golden statue of Bel (Marduk, Merodach).

★ 484 BC — Persians regain control of Egypt.

★ 483 BC — Xerxes I of Persia starts planning his expedition against Greece.

★ 481 BC — The Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth ends a war between Athens and Aegina.

★ 480 BC — King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece.

★ 480 BC — Cimon and his friends burn horse-bridles as an offering to Athena and join the marines.

★ 480 BC — Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas I as king of Sparta.

★ August, 480 BC — Battle of Artemisium — The Persian fleet fights an inconclusive battle with the Greek allied fleet.

★ August 11, 480 BC The Battle of Thermopylae, a victory by Persians over the Greeks.

★ September 23, 480 BC — Battle of Salamis between Greece and Persia, leading to a Greek victory.

★ 480 BC — Battle of Himera — The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse.

★ 480 BC — Roman troops march against the Veintes.

★ c. 480 BC — Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, is built.

★ c. 480 BC — Dying warrior, fragmemt of sculpture from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, is made. It is now at Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich.

Significant People

★ Marcus Fabius, Roman Consul

Births

★ 489 BC — Eudoxus of Cnidus, early mathematician and adherent of Pythagoras Dion, student of Plato and tyrant of Syracuse

★ 484 BC — Herodotus, Greek historian

★ 484 BC — Achaeus of Eretria, a Greek tragedian, was born in the town of Eretria in the island of Euboea

★ 483 BC — Gorgias, Greek philosopher (approximate date)

★ 481 BC — Protagoras — Greek presocratic philosopher

★ 480 BC — Euripides, Greek playwright

★ 480 BC — Antiphon, Attic orator

★ c. 480 BC — Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. c. 405 BC)

Deaths

★ 488 BC — Miltiades, Athenian general

★ 485 BC — Darius I, ruler of ancient Persia

★ May, 483 BC — Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism

★ 481 BC — Ssu-ma Niu — highest ranking aristocrat among disciples of Confucius

★ 480 BC — Leonidas I, king of Sparta

★ 480 BC — Xenophanes, Greek philosopher

References

★ Livy Book 2.