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King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece.
Cimon and his friends burn horse-bridles as an offering to Athena and join the marines
August 11 - The Battle of Thermopylae, a victory by Persians over the Greek
Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas I as king of Sparta.
August - Battle of Artemisium - The Persian fleet fights an inconclusive battle with the Greek allied fleet.
September 23 - Battle of Salamis between Greece and Persia, leading to a Greek victory
Battle of Himera - The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse.

Euripides, Greek playwright.
Antiphon, Attic orator.
Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (+ circa 405 BC) (estimated date).