Near the later site of Amphipolis Alexander I of Macedon defeated the remains of Xerxes ' army in 479 BC.

The following year, 479 BC, the Allies assembled the largest Greek army yet seen and defeated the Persian invasion force at the Battle of Plataea, ending the invasion and the threat to Greece.

The Defence of Greece 490 – 479 BC.

" Master Kong ", 551 – 479 BC ).

( Original work published c. 551 – 479 BC ) ISBN 0-87220-635-1.

* Xerxes, 486 – 479 BC: Books 7, 8 and 9.

The defeat of Persia at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC meant the liberation of Chios from Persian rule.

It evolved at about the same time as Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism, and was one of the four main philosophic schools during the Spring and Autumn Period ( from 770 BC to 480 BC ) and the Warring States Period ( from 479 BC to 221 BC ).

It was possible for the assembly to recall an ostracised person ahead of time ; before the Persian invasion of 479 BC, an amnesty was declared under which at least two ostracised leaders — Pericles ' father Xanthippus and Aristides ' the Just '— are known to have returned.

Also, some warfare was still conducted by Roman forces outside the legionary structure, the most famous example being the campaign in 479 BC by the clan army of gens Fabia against the Etruscan city of Veii ( in which the clan was annihilated ).

Whilst the battle did not end the Persian invasion, it effectively ensured that all Greece would not be conquered, and allowed the Allies to go on the offensive in 479 BC.

It is probable that in early 479 BC, Themistocles was stripped of his command ; instead, Xanthippus was to command the Athenian fleet, and Aristides the land forces.

Though Themistocles was no doubt politically and militarily active for the rest of the campaign, no mention of his activities in 479 BC is made in the ancient sources.

Whatever the cause of Themistocles's unpopularity in 479 BC, it obviously did not last long.

Indeed, after 479 BC, he seems to have enjoyed a relatively long period of popularity.

* 479 BC: The Battle of Plataea, the Greeks defeat the Persians, ending the Persian Wars.

* 479 BC: Battle of Mycale.

* 479 BC: Potidaea is struck by a tsunami.

* Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism ( 551 – August 27, 479 BC )

* 479 BC — death of Mardonius, Persian commander at Plataea

* 479 BC — death of Ephialtes, betrayer of Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae

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Confucius ( 551 – 479 BCE ) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history.

* Prince Ōhatuse no Wakatakeru ( 大泊瀬稚武皇子 ) ( Emperor Yūryaku ) ( 418 – 479 )

No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 456 – 479.

Rushworth Kidder discusses the early contributions of Confucius ( 551 – 479 BCE ) ( See a version in Confucianism below ).

The earliest dates to prehistoric or legendary pasts, from the time of Yūryaku ( r .? 456 –? 479 ) to those of the little documented Yōmei ( r. 585 – 587 ), Saimei ( r. 594 – 661 ), and finally Tenji ( r. 668 – 671 ) during the Taika Reforms and the time of Fujiwara no Kamatari ( 614 – 669 ).

The Persian invasion of Greece in 480 – 479 BC

Emperor Emperor Yūryaku | Yūryaku ( 456 – 479 )

However, in his Histories, ix. 120 – 122, the Greek writer Herodotus describes the execution of a Persian general at the hands of Athenians in about 479 BC: " They nailed him to a plank and hung him up ... this Artayctes who suffered death by crucifixion.

Unlike the original ideology espoused by Confucius, or Kongzi ( 551 – 479 BCE ), Han Confucianism in Emperor Wu's reign was the creation of Dong Zhongshu ( 179 – 104 BCE ).

The Persian invasion of Greece in 480 – 479 BCE

* * Creviston, Vernon P., '“ No King unless it be a Constitutional King ”: Rethinking the Place of the Quebec Act in the Coming of the American Revolution ,' Historian, 73, 3 ( 2011 ), 463 – 479.

The Plataeans, in response, dispatched a herald reminding the Spartans of the glorious deeds the Plataeans performed during the Greco-Persian War and of the oath the Spartans swore to protect them and keep them independent-in 479 BC Pausanias, the Spartan general had decreed that Plataea was on holy ground, and it should never be attacked.

Pausanias was responsible for the Greek victory over Mardonius and the Persians at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, and was the leader of the Hellenic League created to resist Persian aggression during the Greco-Persian Wars.

Mardonius (, ; died 479 BC ) was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC.

The victories of the Greeks during the great Persian war had the effect of enfranchising their kinsmen on the other side of the Aegean ; and the battle of Mycale ( 479 BC ), in which the defeat of the Persians was in great measure owing to the Ionians, secured their emancipation.

In 479 BC Plataea was the site of the final battle that repelled the second Persian invasion of Greece.

Movements of the Persian and Greek armies in 480 – 479 BC

Herodotus gives the size of the Persian fleet at 300 ships ; the Greeks had 378 at Salamis, but must have suffered significant losses, and so they probably also had around 300 in total ( though not necessarily all these ships formed part of the allied fleet for 479 BC ).

Early in 480, Aristides profited by the decree recalling exiles to help in the defence of Athens against Persian invaders, and was elected strategos for the year 480 — 479.

Immortals participated in the Battle of Thermopylae 480 BC and were amongst the Persian occupation troops in Greece in 479 BC under Mardonius.

The allied Greeks followed up their success by destroying the rest of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale, before expelling Persian garrisons from Sestos ( 479 BC ) and Byzantium ( 478 BC ).

The military history of Greece between the end of the second Persian invasion of Greece and the Peloponnesian War ( 479 – 431 BC ) is not well supported by surviving ancient sources.

It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I.

Movements of the Persian and Greek armies in 480 – 479 BC

In 479 BC, the Athenians and Spartans, with their allies, defeated the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea.