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Revision as of 04:39, 29 May 2003
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
- Battle of Marathon
- Phidippides runs 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens to announce the news; origin of the marathon long-distance race
- Battle of Thermopylae
- Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas as king of Sparta
- Battle of Salamis
- Persian invasion of Corfu
Births
Deaths
- Leonidas and 300 Spartans (died at Thermopylae)
- Nabu-rimanni, Babylonian astronomer (estimated date)