470s BC

Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC

Decades: 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC

479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC 470 BC

Events and trends

* 479 BC The Battle of Plataea, the Greeks defeat the Persians, ending the Persian Wars.
* 479 BC - Battle of Mycale.
* 478 BC - Establishment of the Temple of Confucius at (modern-day) Qufu.
* 477 BC - The Delian League is inaugurated.
* 476 BC - Archidamus II succeeds his grandfather Leotychides, who is banished to Tegea, as king of Sparta.
* 475 BC Zhou Yuan Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty.
* 473 BC The Chinese State of Wu is annexed by the State of Yue.
* 471 BC Athenian politician Themistocles is ostracized

Births

*470 BC Socrates, Athenian philosopher

Deaths

* August 27, 479 BC Confucius, philosopher.
* 479 BC - Mardonius - Persian commander at Plataea.
* 479 BC - Ephialtes - betrayer of Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae.
* 476 BC - Zhou Jing Wang / Ji Gai, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
* 475 BC Pythagoras of Samos, mathematician.
* 475 BC - Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher.