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Calendar year
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| 480 BC by topic |
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| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 480 BC CDLXXX BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 274 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXVII dynasty, 46 |
| - Pharaoh | Xerxes I of Persia, 6 |
| Ancient Greek era | 75th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 4271 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1073 – −1072 |
| Berber calendar | 471 |
| Buddhist calendar | 65 |
| Burmese calendar | −1117 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5029–5030 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2218 or 2011 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2219 or 2012 |
| Coptic calendar | −763 – −762 |
| Discordian calendar | 687 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −487 – −486 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3281–3282 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −423 – −422 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2621–2622 |
| Holocene calendar | 9521 |
| Iranian calendar | 1101 BP – 1100 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1135 BH – 1134 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1854 |
| Minguo calendar | 2391 before ROC 民前2391年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1947 |
| Thai solar calendar | 63–64 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) −353 or −734 or −1506 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) −352 or −733 or −1505 |
Year 480 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Cincinnatus (or, less frequently, year 274 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 480 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Births
- September 22 (traditional date) – Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BCE)
- Antiphon, Attic orator (d. 411 BCE)
- Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. c. 405 BCE)
- Ezra, Jewish scribe and priest (d. c. 440 BCE)
Deaths
- August 11 – Leonidas I, Agiad King of Sparta (died at Thermopylae)
- Xenophanes, Greek philosopher (b. 570 BC)
- Hamilcar, Carthaginian general (suicide after his defeat in the Battle of Himera)
- Zhong You (Zilu), a prominent disciple of Confucius (b. 542 BC)
- Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, a former consul (twice) of Rome, dies in battle against Veii.
- Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus, Roman consul, dies in battle against Veii.