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General

Population: About 162 million*

• Births: Greek dramatist Euripides (484 BC)
• Entertainment: Aeschylus wins Athenian tragedy prize for first play (484 BC)
• History: Death of Hecataeus of Greece wro wrote about India (486 BC)
  Herototus the first real historian writes - known as "Father of history and lies" (485 BC)
• Philosophy: Heraclitus creates theory of opposition (480 BC)
• Warfare: Xerxes I of Persia demands tribute of Greek states and is refused (486 BC)
  Greeks defeat Persians and Xerxes at Salamis (see 470s) (480 BC)
• Deaths: Darius I of Persia (486 or 485 BC), Hecataeus of Greece (486 BC), Greek philosopher Heraclitus (483 BC), Siddartha Gautama - the Buddha (483, 482, or 480 BC)

Africa

• General: Voyage of Carthaginian admiral Hanno along west African coast
• Nigeria: Taruga and Nigeria becomes iron working center (480 BC)
• North: Carthaginians under Hamilcar Barca defeated by Gelo of Syracuse (480 BC)

Americas

• General: Possible discovery of America by St. Brendan as he seeks "promised land" (probably 484 AD) (484 BC)

Asia

• China: End of the "Springs and Autumns" period of China and start of "Warring States" period (481 BC)
  China breaks into warring states ending the Chou Dynasty (480 BC)
• India: War between Persia and western India (480 BC)

Europe

• General: Gelo becomes tyrant of Syracuse (485 BC)
• Eastern Europe: Start of Roman/Greek influence on the Crimean Peninsula to the Black Sea to 341 AD (480 BC)
• Greece: Militiades disgraced (488 BC)
  Aristides banished (483 BC)
  Athenian sea power established (483 BC)
  Somewhere between 200,000 and 2 million die in battles with Persians
  Battles of Thermopylae and Salmis (480 BC)
  In Battle of Thermopylae the 300 Spartans under Leonidas defeated by Persians in "Ancient Alamo"
  Athens abandoned and burned, Acropolis destroyed by Persians in Battle of Salamis (480 BC)
  Greeks defeat Persians (480 BC)
• Italian States: Cincinnatus becomes Roman Dictator (or 458 BC) (485 BC)
  Temple of Castor and Pollux erected in Rome (484 BC)
  Start of Wars of Sicily (480 BC)

Middle East

• Persia: Death of Darius I of Persia (487-5 BC)
  Reign of Xerxes begins as he defeats Babylon (485 BC)
  Hypostyle Hall of Xerxes erected at Persepolis (485 BC)
  Storm destroys ships of Persians (480 BC)
  Persians under Xerxes defeated by Greeks (480 BC)