-475

This page relates to the year -475 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

  • With Rome, Consul At of Publius Valerius Poplicola, Caius Nautius Rutilus (or Rufus).

  • Cimon with the head of the fleet of the Ligue of Délos goes in Thrace and forces the Perses to be locked up in the town of Eion which it besieges and takes. The Persian general Bogès commits suicide with his men by setting fire to the city with all his treasures accumulated by his plunderings. This event opens the way with the colonization of the valley of the Strymon.
  • Athens sends a colony to Eion which will be massacred by the Thrace S in -465/-464.
  • In India, reign of Udayin, king of Magadha.

Science & technology

Art & culture

Births

Death

  • the historian and geographer Hécatée of Millet.

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