470s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	500s BC 490s BC 480s BC – 470s BC – 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC
Years:	479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC 470 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 479 BC—The Battle of Plataea, the Greeks defeat the Persians, ending the Persian Wars.
• 479 BC—Battle of Mycale.
• 478 BC—Establishment of the Temple of Confucius at (modern-day) Qufu.
• 477 BC—The Delian League is inaugurated.
• 476 BC—Archidamus II succeeds his grandfather Leotychides, who is banished to Tegea, as king of Sparta.
• 475 BC—Zhou Yuan Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty.
• 474 BC—Battle of Cumae—The Syracusans under Hiero I defeat the Etruscans and end Etruscan expansion in southern Italy.
• 474 BC—Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes.
• 473 BC—The Chinese State of Wu is annexed by the State of Yue.
• 472 BC—Carystus in Euboea is forced to join the Delian League. (approximate date)
• 472 BC—The tragedy The Persians is produced by Aeschylus.
• 471 BC—Athenian politician Themistocles is ostracized.

Births

• c. 470 BC—Mozi, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 391 BC)
• 470 BC—Socrates, Athenian philosopher (d. 399 BC)

Deaths

• August 27, 479 BC—Confucius, philosopher (b. 551 BC)
• 479 BC—Mardonius—Persian commander at Plataea
• 479 BC—Ephialtes—betrayer of Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae
• 476 BC—Zhou Jing Wang / Ji Gai, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China
• 475 BC—Pythagoras of Samos, mathematician
• 475 BC—Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher (b. c. 535)