480 BC Chr.

480 BC Chr.
In the battle of Salamis the Greeks defeat under Themistocles the Persians under Xerxes I , who after Persia flees.
480 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	64/65 (southern Buddhism); 63/64 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	36th (37th) cycle , year of the metal rooster辛酉 ( at the beginning of the year metal monkey 庚申)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 74th / 1st year of the 75th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3281/82
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCLXXIV (274)
Ongoing events
Persian Wars against Greece (since 500 BC)
Nok culture in Africa (since around 500 BC)
Sa Huynh culture in Central and South Vietnam (since around 500 BC)
27th Dynasty (Persian rule) (since 525 BC) during the Late Period in Egypt (since 664 BC)
Attic vase painting in Greece: Red-figure vase painting (since 530 BC) Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)
Iron Age III in Israel (since 587 BC)
Hallstatt period HaD in Europe (since 650 BC)
Eastern Zhou dynasty in China (since 770/722 BC)
Dong-Son culture in northern Vietnam and southern China (since around 800 BC)
Middle Preclassic period among the Maya (since approx. 900 BC)
Antiquity in the Mediterranean region (since approx. 1200/800 BC) Classical era in Greece (since approx. 500 BC) Strict style (since approx. 490 BC )
La Venta period among the Olmecs in Mesoamerica (since approx. 1500 BC)

Events

Athens announces a general amnesty due to the threat of attack by the Persian Empire . Among other things, the Xanthippos and Aristeides , who were banished by the shard court , can return to their hometown.

The Xerxes Canal on the Chalkidiki peninsula will be completed after three years of construction under the Persian engineer Bubares .

The Achaemenid Empire begins under Xerxes I a large-scale attack with a land army and a fleet on Greece. For this purpose he has two ship bridges built over the Hellespont at the narrowest point of the Dardanelles near Abydos . When these are destroyed by a storm immediately after completion, Xerxes has the sea whipped and two bridges built again. Their crossing by the Persian army takes seven days.

Battle of Thermopylae and its consequences

around August 11th : " Molon labe " : Greek units can detain the Persians under Abrokomas at Thermopylae for days and inflict heavy losses on them. It was only through the betrayal of Ephialtes of Trachis that the Persian army succeeded in bypassing the pass and surrounding the Greeks. A small Spartan about 1,000-strong unit of King Leonidas I , of Thespiern and Thebern is supported, covering the withdrawal of the remaining troops and in the Battle of Thermopylae completely wiped out.

Places of battles near Artemision and Thermopylae

August: The battle of Artemision ends in a draw. At the news of the defeat at Thermopylae, the Greeks withdraw, whereupon the way to central Greece is open to the Persians.
The Persians move south and conquer Delphi . The sanctuary is spared in order not to stir up the resistance of the Greeks. Thebes subsequently openly sided with the Persians.
Athens , whose population has been evacuated to the nearby island of Salamis , is conquered and its sanctuaries plundered .
September (presumably 29th ): In the battle of Salamis , the greatest naval battle in ancient history , the Athenian fleet under Themistocles celebrates a decisive victory over the Persians . Great King Xerxes I then pulls his land army back to Thessaly to winter and the fleet to Samos. He himself goes back to Persia . The Persian expansion efforts in Greece have finally failed. Athens becomes the dominant power in Greece because of its fleet.

The 483 BC Former tyrant of Himera , Terillos , displaced in the 4th century BC , calls on Carthage for help. In the battle of Himera , however, Gelon , tyrant of Syracuse , and Theron of Akragas, as the leader of an alliance of Greco-Sicilian city-states, defeat the Carthaginian army led by Hamilkar , with Hamilkar being killed. Carthage then has to pay compensation and for some time gives up its ambitions in Sicily .

Marcus Fabius Vibulanus from the patrician family of the Fabians becomes consul of the Roman Republic for the second time .
The former consul Titus Siccius Sabinus leads a campaign against the Veienter .

around 480 BC BC: The Carthaginian navigator Himilkon explores the North Atlantic, presumably as far as Britain .

Heracles fights with Busiris , Pelike , around 470 BC. Chr.

around 480 BC Chr .: Greek vase painting : first works of the Pan painter ; the Brygos painter works in Athens.
around 490/480 BC Chr .: In Greece the strict style appears.

Astylos von Kroton wins three of four running competitions at the Olympic Games .
Theogenes wins the fist fight at the Olympics .

around 480 BC Chr .: Antiphon , Greek philosopher and sophist

around 480 BC Chr .: Polyklet , Greek sculptor

480, 485 or 484 BC Chr .: Euripides , Greek tragedy poet from Salamis († 406 BC )

Modern plaque to Leonidas: Wanderer, if you come to Sparta, then report that you saw us lying here, just as the law ordered

August: Leonidas I , King of Sparta
Late year: Ariamenes , Ariabignes and Arsames , sons of the Persian great king Dareios I.
Quintus Fabius Vibulanus , Roman consul
Cleombrotos , Spartan military leader

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