Year 490 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Camerinus and Flavus (or, less frequently...
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First Persian invasion of Greece (redirect from Siege of Naxos (490 BC))
Greco-Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. The invasion, consisting of two...
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Greco-Persian Wars (redirect from Siege of Byzantium (478 BC))
before several mishaps forced an early end to the rest of the campaign. In 490 BC a second force was sent to Greece, this time across the Aegean Sea, under...
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This article concerns the period 499 BC – 490 BC. After a failed attack on the rebellious island of Naxos in c. 501 BC (on behalf of the Persians), Aristagoras...
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Pheidippides (category 5th-century BC Athenians)
of the manuscripts. The traditional story relates that Pheidippides (530–490 BC), an Athenian herald, or hemerodrome (translated as "day-runner", "courier"...
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Cleomenes I (category 6th-century BC monarchs)
Cleomenes I (/kliːˈɒmɪniːz/; Greek Κλεομένης; died c. 490 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from c. 524 to c. 490 BC. One of the most important Spartan kings, Cleomenes...
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Glyptothek (section Archaic period (700-490 BC))
(460 BC), the so-called Munich King (460 BC), who probably represented Hephaestus, the Statue of Diomedes (430 BC), the Medusa Rondanini (440 BC), the...
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in the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. 492 BC: Ajatashartu overthrows his father Bimbisara to become king of Magadha. 491 BC: Leotychidas succeeds his cousin...
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500–463 BC. Archaic coin of Chios, c. 490–435 BC. Earlier types known. Archaic Aegina coin type, "windmill pattern" incuse punch. c. 510–490 BC. Athens...
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Battle of Marathon (category 490s BC conflicts)
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea...
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Olorus (category 5th-century BC monarchs)
general Miltiades, who defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Herodotus, 6.39.2. Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge...
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(approximate date) (b. c. 490 BC) Phidias, Greek sculptor (approximate date) (b. c. 480 BC) Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 490 BC)...
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Lists of battles (redirect from List of battle 1400 BC-600 AD)
An extensive list of important battles and influential leaders, from -490 BC to present times. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_frontier_wars...
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Battle of Thermopylae (redirect from Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC))
been initiated by Darius I and ended in 490 BC by an Athenian-led Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon. By 480 BC, a decade after the Persian defeat at...
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BC – c. AD 600 and can be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1,100–800 BC Archaic period, 800–490 BC Classical...
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Gela successfully took over both Ionian and Dorian Greek territory, and by 490 BC, Zankle, Leontini, Catana, Naxos, besides neighboring Sicel lands and Camarina...
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Phaethon is performed. Protagoras, Greek presocratic philosopher (b. c. 490 BC) Magazine, Smithsonian; Shavin, Naomi. "The Ancient History of Cheating...
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Coin (section Tongbei in Bronze Age China (c. 1100 BC))
550–530/20 BC. Coin of Lycia, c. 520–470/60 BC. Lycia coin, c. 520-470 BC. Struck with worn obverse die. Coin of Lesbos, Ionia, c. 510–80 BC. The Classical...
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Darius made a point of punishing Eretria during his invasion of Greece. In 490 BC the city was sacked and burned by the Persians under the admiral Datis....
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the Dionysia, which honoured the god Dionysus. Tragedy (late 500 BC), comedy (490 BC), and the satyr play were the three dramatic genres emerged there...
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vase-painters of the fifth century BC began to envisage her as being beautiful as well as terrifying. In an ode written in 490 BC, Pindar already speaks of "fair-cheeked...
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Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (category 5th-century BC Spartans)
child of Cleomenes I, Leonidas' half-brother and King of Sparta (r. 520–490 BC). Gorgo was also the mother of King Pleistarchus, her only son with King...
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Ionian Revolt in 500 BC, that provoked the first Persian invasion of 492 BC. The Persians (called "Medes") were finally defeated in 490 BC. A second Persian...
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was an unarmed combat sport introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques but also others, such as...
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(519–477 BC) Yuan, King (476–469 BC) Zhending, King (468–441 BC) Cai (complete list) – Zhao, Marquis (518–491 BC) Cheng, Marquis (490–472 BC) Sheng, Marquis...
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defeat that Darius I suffered at the hands of the Greeks at Marathon in 490 BC. In response, Xerxes prepares for a major expedition to crush the Greeks...
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(d. 468 BC) Onomacritus, Greek compiler of oracles (approximate date) (d. 480 BC) Pheidippides, Greek runner (approximate date) (d. c. 490 BC) December...
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Leonidas I (category 6th-century BC births)
married Cleomenes' daughter, Gorgo, sometime before coming to the throne in 490 BC. Leonidas was heir to the Agiad throne (successor of Cleomenes I) and a...
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interval between the sending of the heralds in 491 BC and the invasion of Datis and Artaphernes in 490 BC (cf. Herod. vi. 49 with 94). There are difficulties...
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Hippias (tyrant) (category 6th-century BC births)
Greek: Ἱππίας, romanized: Hippías; c. 570 BC – 490 BC) was the last tyrant of Athens, ruling from 527 to 510 BC. He was one of the Peisistratids, a group...
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