Marathon 490 BCE.
Plataea 479 BCE.
The Battle of Marathon was the first attempt , and first defeat , by Persian forces to subjugate Greece . The Persians were defeated by the Athenians at Marathon , Greece .
It was the war which happened in 490 BCE and was decided by the Athenian victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
Their punitive expedition against Eretreia and Athens losing the battle of Marathon to the Athenian and Plataean armies.
No the first Persian invasion was in 490bc, the battle associated with the invasion was the Battle of Marathon.
Marathon.
In 490BC when Pheidippedes, a Greek messenger, ran from the Battle of Marathon, to Athens to proclaim the Greek victory over the Persians
490 BC When a runner took a message to Athens with the news that the Greeks had won a battle against the Persians at Marathon
The first battle of the Marne happened in Sept. 1914
First London Marathon with 7,500 runners?
The battle of Marathon 490 BCE.
Second Battle of Benghazi happened on 2011-03-20.
The first marathon in Greece took place at the site of the ancient Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. This historic event commemorated the run of the soldier Pheidippides, who is said to have raced from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over the Persians. The modern marathon, inspired by this legend, was first held during the 1896 Athens Olympics.