Battle of Marathon
490 BCE · Event
Athenian and Plataean hoplites defeat Darius I's Persian invasion force on the plain of Marathon.
On these timelines: Master, Ancient Greece, Persia and Iran
Around 490 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)