Voyage of Hanno the Navigator
A Carthaginian fleet sails past Gibraltar down Africa's coast
The Carthaginian navigator Hanno led a fleet past the Pillars of Hercules and down the Atlantic coast of West Africa. His account, the Periplus, preserved in Greek translation, is one of the oldest descriptions of tropical Africa.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 509 BC Founding of the Roman Republic — 9 years earlier
- 508 BC Cleisthenes' reforms and the birth of democracy — 8 years earlier
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — 10 years later
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — 20 years later
Asia
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — 17 years later
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Pythagoras (aged 70)
- Gautama Buddha (aged 63)
- Confucius (aged 51)
- Darius the Great (aged 50)
- Sun Tzu (aged 44)
- Leonidas I (aged 40)
- Xerxes I (aged 18)
- Heraclitus (aged 35)
- Themistocles (aged 24)