Wikipedia:
479 BC
| 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: | 482 BC 481 BC 480 BC - 479 BC - 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC |
| 479 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 479 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 275 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2322 – -2321 |
| Buddhist calendar | 66 |
| Chinese calendar | 2158/2218 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2159/2219([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -762 – -761 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -486 – -485 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3282 – 3283 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -423 – -422 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2623 – 2624 |
| Holocene calendar | 9522 |
| Iranian calendar | 1100 BP – 1099 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1134 BH – 1133 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 182 (皇紀182年) |
| Julian calendar | -433 |
| Korean calendar | 1855 |
| Thai solar calendar | 65 |
Events
By place
Greece
- The Persian commander Mardonius, now based in Thessaly, wins support from Argus and western Arcadia. He tries to win over Athens but fails.
- Mardonius attacks Athens once more and the Athenians are forced to retreat, whereupon he razes the city. The Spartans march north to support Athens against the Persians.
- 27 August — The Battle of Plataea in Boeotia ends the Persian invasions of Greece as the Persian general Mardonius is routed by the Greeks under Pausanias, nephew of the former Spartan King, Leonidas I. The Athenian contingent is led by the repatriated Aristides. Mardonius is killed in the battle and the Greeks capture enormous amounts of booty. Thebes is captured shortly thereafter and the Theban collaborators executed by Pausanias.
- 27 August — Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychidas of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens in the Battle of Mycale, off the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor.
Births
Deaths
- 27 August — Mardonius, Persian general (killed in the Battle of Plataea)
- Confucius, Chinese philosopher (b. 551 BC)
- Ephialtes, betrayer of the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
