479 BC
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479 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium 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 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4272 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2322–-2321 |
| Bengali calendar | -1071 |
| Berber calendar | 472 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 66 |
| Burmese calendar | -1116 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5030–5031 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (2158/2218) — to —
壬戌年(2159/2219) |
| Coptic calendar | -762–-761 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -486–-485 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3282–3283 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -422–-421 |
| - 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 | |
| Korean calendar | 1855 |
| Minguo calendar | 2390 before ROC 民前2390年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 65 |
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Year 479 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Rutilus (or, less frequently, year 275 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 479 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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.
- August 27
- 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 loot. Thebes is captured shortly thereafter and the Theban collaborators executed by Pausanias.
- 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.
- Potidaea is struck by a tsunami.
Births
Deaths
- August 27 – 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
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