Year 480 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 Cincinnatus (or, less...

completely conquer Greece but died in 486 BC and responsibility for the conquest passed to his son Xerxes. In 480 BC, Xerxes personally led the second Persian...

The Battle of Himera (480 BC), supposedly fought on the same day as the Battle of Salamis, or at the same time as the Battle of Thermopylae, saw the Greek...

The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece....

Corinth ends a war between Athens and Aegina. 480 BC: King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece. 480 BC: Cimon and his friends burn horse-bridles...

Greece begins. (It ends in 480 BC with the invasion of Xerxes.) From c. 800 BC – The Upanishads are composed. c. 800 BC–700 BC—Pre-Etruscan period in Italy...

This article concerns the period 489 BC – 480 BC. After his great victory in the Battle of Marathon, Miltiades leads a naval expedition to Paros to pay...

second Persian invasion of Greece. Occurring in July, August, or September 480 BC, it was one of the most prominent military engagements of the Greco-Persian...

550–530/20 BC. Coin of Lycia, c. 520–470/60 BC. Lycia coin, c. 520-470 BC. Struck with worn obverse die. Coin of Lesbos, Ionia, c. 510–80 BC. The Classical...

1050 BC – 776 BC) Archaic Greece (776 BC – 480 BC) – begins with the First Olympiad, traditionally dated 776 BC Archaic period (776 BC – 612 BC) – the...