| Centuries: | 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC |
| Decades: | 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC |
| Years: | 479 BC 478 BC 477 BC - 476 BC - 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC |
| 476 BC by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 476 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 278 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2319 – -2318 |
| Berber calendar | 475 |
| Buddhist calendar | 69 |
| Burmese calendar | -1113 |
| Chinese calendar | 2161/2221 (甲子年) — to —
2162/2222([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -759 – -758 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -483 – -482 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3285 – 3286 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -420 – -419 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2626 – 2627 |
| Holocene calendar | 9525 |
| Iranian calendar | 1097 BP – 1096 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1131 BH – 1130 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 1858 |
| Thai solar calendar | 68 |
Events
By place
Greece
- Convicted in Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia. The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. The 6th century BC started the first day of 600 BC and ended the last day of 501 BC. The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them Births 496 BC — Sophocles, Athenian Dramatist and Statesman c Births 484 BC — Herodotus, Greek Historian 484 BC — Achaeus of Eretria, a Greek Events and trends 479 BC — The Battle of Plataea, the Greeks defeat the Persians, ending the Persian Wars. Events and trends 468 BC — Sophocles, Greek Playwright, defeats Aeschylus for the Athenian Prize. Events and trends 459 BC — Destruction of the Sicilian town of Morgantina by Douketios, leader of the Sikels, according Events and trends 449 BC — Construction begins on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens. This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Events By place Greece The Persian commander Mardonius, now based in Thessaly, wins support Events By place Greece Despite Spartan opposition Athens is refortified as well as rebuilt after the Events By place Greece The Spartan co-ruler Leotychides and the Athenian leader Themistocles Events By place Greece Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the Events By place Italy Hiero I, tyrant of Sicily, allied with Aristodemus, the tyrant of Events By place China The State of Wu is annexed by the State of Yue. The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used Calendar in the world today Ab Urbe condita (literally "from The Armenian calendar is the traditional calendar of Armenia. The Bahá'í calendar, also called the Badí‘ calendar, used by the Bahá'í Faith, is a Solar calendar with regular years of 365 days and Leap The Berber calendar is the annual Calendar used by Berber people in North Africa. The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland Southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar (formerly Burma The traditional Burmese calendar is a Lunisolar calendar based on both the phases of the moon and the motion of the sun The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a Lunar calendar with those of a Solar calendar. The Chinese sexagenary cycle ( is a cyclic numeral system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles the ten Heavenly Stems (天干 tiāngān The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and still used in Egypt The Ethiopian calendar ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዘመን አቆጣጠር ye'Ītyōṗṗyā zemen āḳoṭaṭer) also called the Ge'ez calendar, The Hebrew calendar (הלוח העברי ha'luach ha'ivri) or Jewish calendar is a Lunisolar calendar used by Jews for predominantly religious The Hindu calendar used in ancient times has undergone many changes in the process of regionalization and today there are several regional Indian Calendars, as The Indian national calendar (sometimes called Saka calendar) is the official civil calendar in use in India. Kali Yuga ( Devanāgarī: sa कलियुग lit "Age of Kali " "age of vice" is one of the four stages of development that the world goes The Iranian calendar or Solar Hejri (تقویم هجری شمسی؛ سالنمای هجری خورشیدی Taqwim Hejri Shamsi Salanmay Hejri Khurshidi) is an astronomical The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar ( Arabic: التقويم الهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī; Persian: تقویم هجری قمری Since January 1, 1873, Japan has used the Gregorian calendar, with local names for the months and mostly fixed holidays The traditional Korean calendar is a Lunisolar calendar which like the traditional calendars of other East Asian countries was based on the Chinese calendar The Thai solar calendar, Suriyakati (สุริยคติ has been the official and prevalent Calendar in Thailand since it was adopted by King The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Leotychidas Latychidas''' (c 545 BC&ndash469 BC was a ruler of Sparta 491 BC-476 BC Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio. Arcadia or Arkadía ( Greek Αρκαδία is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. A sentence of exile is passed upon him; his house is razed, and his grandson, Archidamus II, ascends the Spartan throne in his place. Archidamus II' was a king of Sparta who reigned from approximately 476 BC to 427 BC
- Cimon of Athens increases his power at the expense of Themistocles. Cimon (in Greek, Κίμων &mdash Kimōn) (510 Athens - 450 BC Citium, Cyprus) was an Athenian Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Themistocles ( Greek:; c 524&ndash459 BC was an Athenian soldier and statesman He ousts Pausanias and the Spartans from the area around the Bosporus. Pausanias (Greek = Παυσανίας (d c 470 BC was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC The Bosporus or Bosphorus, also known as the Istanbul Strait, (İstanbul Boğazı (Βόσπορος is a Strait that forms the boundary between the The Spartans, hearing that Pausanias is intriguing with the Persians, recall him and he is "disciplined". The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia
- Under the leadership of Kimon, the Delian League continues to fight the Persians and to release the Ionian cities from Persian domination. The Delian League was an association of approximately 150 5th-century BC Greek City-states under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue Geography Physical Ionia was of small extent not exceeding 90 geographical miles in length from north to south with a breadth varying from 40 to 55 miles but to this Athens' capture of Eion on the Strymon from the Persians is led by Cimon. Eion is a town to the northeast of the Greek mainland It sits at the mouth of the Strymon River which flows into the Aegean from the interior of Thrace. Strymon redirects here For the Strymon Gulf see Strymonian Gulf.
By topic
Literature
- The Greek poet Pindar visits Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of Theron of Acragas and Hieron I of Syracuse. Pindar (ˈpɪndɚ (or Pindarus, Greek:) (probably born 522 BC in Cynoscephalae a village in Boeotia; died 443 BC in Argos) was an Ancient Sicily ( Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy. Theron (? - 473 BC son of Aenesidamus was a Greek Tyrant of the town of Acragas in Sicily from 488 BC Agrigento ( Girgenti in Sicilian) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the Province of Agrigento Hieron I (Ἱέρων in Greek was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily from 478 to 467 BC Syracuse (Siracusa Sicilian: Sarausa, Classical Greek: / transliterated Syrakousai) is a historic City in They commission some of his greatest poetry. It is through these connections that Pindar's reputation spreads all over the Greek world.
Births
Deaths
- Zhou Jing Wang (Ji Gai), King of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty
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