480 BC

Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC

Decades: 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC

Years: 485 BC 484 BC 483 BC 482 BC 481 BC - 480 BC - 479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC 475 BC

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.
* 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.
* Persian invasion of Corfu.
* Battle of Himera - The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse.

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.

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