Death of the Buddha
By tradition, Gautama passes at Kushinagar; his teaching spreads
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Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, died at Kushinagar aged about 80; the date is debated, from c. 483 to c. 400 BC. His teaching on suffering and the path to liberation became Buddhism, which spread across Asia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 508 BC Cleisthenes' reforms and the birth of democracy — 25 years earlier
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — 7 years earlier
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — 3 years later
Alive at the time
- Gautama Buddha (aged 80)
- Confucius (aged 68)
- Leonidas I (aged 57)
- Xerxes I (aged 35)
- Sophocles (aged 14)
- Pericles (aged 12)
- Herodotus (aged 1)
- Heraclitus (aged 52)
- Themistocles (aged 41)