There was no king of Athens. Athens was a democracy.
Salamis 480 BCE.
First of all the Athenians did not win the battle of salamis, the Greeks did and they won because they had smaller and faster Greek ships
In 480 BCE when the Greek fleed defeated the Persian fleet.
The Greek city-state of Athens emerged as the victor in the naval Battle of Salamis during the Greco-Persian Wars. Led by Themistocles, the Athenian fleet defeated the Persian navy, which was under the command of King Xerxes I. The victory at Salamis was a significant turning point in the war and helped secure Greek independence from the Persian Empire.
Athens with its ally Plataia.
An alliance of a couple of dozen southern Greek city-states led by Sparta defeated the Persian invasion fleet at Salamis in 480 BCE.
English King Edward I won the Battle of Falkirk.
There was no Salamis War. The sea battle of Salamis 480 BCE, won by the Greek navy, was a turning point in the invasion of mainland Greece by Persia. The following year 479 BCe the Greek army won at Plataia and the remainder of the Persian navy was destroyed at Mykale.
The Greeks did because they had smaller and faster Greek ships (came right from my social studies book) hope i could help :)
The naval Battle of Salamis won a victory for the Greek allies, primarily Athens. It, in effect, stranded the Persian Army in Greece, forcing it to make a fighting retreat home, leading to its defeat at Plataea. After the war, Athens formed a naval defense league to prevent any further Persian incursions. Athens became he leading cultural center of its time, leading the world in architecture, sculpture, and theater. In time, Athens began to use the treasury of the league as its personal resource, and behaved as an imperial power, bringing it into conflict with its former ally, Sparta, and sparking the Peloponnesian War, which eventually led to Athens' defeat and the fall of democracy in Ancient Greece.
They won because they split the Persian fleet and defeated it in detail in the narrow waters of the strait.
The Battle of Thermopylae: The Persians won the Battle of Thermopylae against the Spartans, but it was a Pyrrhic Victory. The Battle of Salamis: This Naval Battle was critically won by the Athenians against the Persians. The Battle of Plataea: This Battle was won by the Alliance of Greek City States against the Persians.