480 BC

Year 480 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Cincinnatus (or, less frequently, year 274 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 480 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
480 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar480 BC
CDLXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita274
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 46
- PharaohXerxes I of Persia, 6
Ancient Greek era75th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar4271
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1072
Berber calendar471
Buddhist calendar65
Burmese calendar−1117
Byzantine calendar5029–5030
Chinese calendar庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
2217 or 2157
     to 
辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
2218 or 2158
Coptic calendar−763 – −762
Discordian calendar687
Ethiopian calendar−487 – −486
Hebrew calendar3281–3282
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−423 – −422
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2621–2622
Holocene calendar9521
Iranian calendar1101 BP – 1100 BP
Islamic calendar1135 BH – 1134 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1854
Minguo calendar2391 before ROC
民前2391年
Nanakshahi calendar−1947
Thai solar calendar63–64
Tibetan calendar阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
−353 or −734 or −1506
     to 
阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
−352 or −733 or −1505
The Persian invasion of Greece in 480–479 BC

Events

Greece

Rome

Sicily

  • Xerxes encourages the Carthaginians to attack the Greeks in Sicily. Under the Carthaginian military leader, Hamilcar, Carthage sends across a large army.
  • The Greek city of Himera in Sicily, in its quarrel with Akragas, enlists Carthaginian support. With the help of Gelo, the tyrant of Syracusae, and Theron of Akragas, the Carthaginians are defeated in the Battle of Himera. After the defeat, Hamilcar kills himself.

Persian empire

  • The Imperial treasury at the Persepolis Palace is completed after a building time of thirty years.

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