Battle of Salamis
Themistocles traps the Persian fleet in a narrow strait
Following Themistocles' plan, the Greek fleet lured the Persian ships into the narrow strait off Salamis and destroyed them. Xerxes withdrew to Asia, and after Plataea in 479 BC the Persian invasion of Greece collapsed.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 5th century BC
Did you know
Confucius died in 479 BC — one year after the Greeks defeated the Persian fleet at Salamis.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Asia
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — 3 years earlier
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — 1 year later
Alive at the time
- Confucius (aged 71)
- Leonidas I (aged 60)
- Xerxes I (aged 38)
- Sophocles (aged 17)
- Pericles (aged 15)
- Herodotus (aged 4)
- Phidias (aged 0)
- Heraclitus (aged 55)
- Themistocles (aged 44)