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Year of the Water Pig癸亥( at the beginning of the year Water Dog壬戌)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • A Greek fleet under the command of the Spartan Pausanias conquered Byzantium from the Persians.
  • Gelon, the sovereign ruler of Syracuse, and thus the whole of Sicily, dies. His brother Hiero I, who is BC 485 already followed him as a tyrant of Gela, now also takes over the rule over Syracuse.
  • In the Battle of Lize at the time of the Warring States in China, the State Yue Wu defeated the State devastating.
  • (um): The Athenian confederacy under the leadership of Athens is founded as an alliance against the Persian threat. It develops in the course of the century, becoming more of a counterpart to the Spartan dominated Peloponnesian League.

Died

  • Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse
April 2014 List of centuries 3rd century BC 488 BC 482 BC 474 BC 468 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Pausanias (general) Hiero I of Syracuse 485 BC Yue (state) History of Athens
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