Battle of Thermopylae
480 BCE · Event
Leonidas's 300 Spartans (and Thespians and Thebans) hold the pass for three days against Xerxes' army before being outflanked.
On these timelines: Master, Ancient Greece, Persia and Iran
Around 480 BCE
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)