Death of Confucius
China loses the teacher whose sayings will shape its state
Confucius, a teacher who stressed filial piety, ritual and virtuous government, died in the state of Lu. His disciples compiled his sayings as the Analects; under the Han dynasty Confucianism became China's state ideology.
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Confucius died in 479 BC — one year after the Greeks defeated the Persian fleet at Salamis.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — 11 years earlier
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — 1 year earlier
Alive at the time
- Confucius (aged 72)
- Xerxes I (aged 39)
- Sophocles (aged 18)
- Pericles (aged 16)
- Herodotus (aged 5)
- Phidias (aged 1)
- Heraclitus (aged 56)
- Themistocles (aged 45)