Events

• King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece.
• Cimon and his friends burn horse-bridles as an offering to Athena and join the marines.
• August 11 - The Battle of Thermopylae, a victory by Persians over the Greek.
• Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas I as king of Sparta.
• August - Battle of Artemisium - The Persian fleet fights an inconclusive battle with the Greek allied fleet.
• September 23 - Battle of Salamis between Greece and Persia, leading to a Greek victory.
• Battle of Himera - The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse.
• Roman troops march against the Veintes.

Births

• Euripides, Greek playwright.
• Antiphon, Attic orator.
• Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (+ circa 405 BC) (estimated date).

Deaths

• Leonidas I and 300 Spartans (died at Thermopylae).
• Nabu-rimanni, Chaldean astronomer and mathematician (estimated date).
• Xenophanes, Greek philosopher.

References

480s BC

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