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This article concerns the period 479 BC – 470 BC.
Births
475 BC
474 BC
- Pandukabhaya of Anuradhapura, ruler of Sri Lanka
472 BC
- Thucydides, Greek historian (d.c. 400 BC)
471 BC
- Thucydides, Greek historian (alleged date, however, 460 BC is more probable) (d. c. 395 BC)
470 BC
- Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 400 BC)
- Hippocrates of Chios, Greek mathematician (d. c. 410 BC)
- Mozi (or Mo Tzu), Chinese philosopher (d. c. 391)
- Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. c. 399 BC)[2]
Deaths
479 BC
- August 27: Mardonius, Persian general (killed in the Battle of Plataea)[3]
- Confucius, Chinese philosopher (b. 551 BC)
478 BC
- Gelo, tyrant of the cities of Gela and Syracuse in Sicily
- Xenophanes, Greek poet and philosopher (approximate year)[4]
477 BC
- Duke Dao of Qin, ruler of the state of Qin
- Emperor Itoku of Japan, according to legend.
476 BC
- Zhou Jing Wang, king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty
475 BC
- Duke Ding of Jin, ruler of Jin in ancient China (r. 511–475 BC)
- Atossa, Achaemenid queen (approximate date)
473 BC
- King Fuchai of Wu, the last king of Wu in Zhou dynasty, China
470 BC
- Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars
References
[edit]- ^ "Philolaus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
- ^ "Socrates | Biography, Philosophy, Beliefs, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ Plutarch's Lives, Aristides 19
- ^ "Xenophanes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 24, 2024.