Reign of Xerxes I
486 BCE–465 BCE* · Event
Led the second Persian invasion of Greece to Thermopylae and Salamis, and was murdered in a palace conspiracy.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, Master, Ancient Greece, Greco-Persian Wars
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