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Revision as of 16:30, 8 September 2002 by Stephen Gilbert (talk | contribs) (birth of Euripedes)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
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Years: 485 BC 484 BC 483 BC 482 BC 481 BC - 480 BC - 479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC 475 BC
Births
Deaths
- Nabu-rimanni, Babylonian astronomer (estimated date)
Events
- King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece
- Battle of Marathon
- Phidippides runs from Marathon to Athens to announce the news; origin of the marathon long-distance race
- Battle of Thermopylae
- Battle of Salamis
- Persian invasion of Corfu