The Persian Wars 490-448 BC
Battles of the Achaemenid Empire
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The First Persian War: 490 BC - (Campaign of Darius I)
| 491 BC: | Athens and Sparta kill Darius' Persian envoys. |
| 490 BC: | Persians sail through the Cyclades taking Naxos, Carystus and Eretria. |
| 490 BC: | Persian invasion force is defeated at the Battle of Marathon. |
The Second Persian War: 480 BC - (Campaign of Xerxes I)
| 480 BC: | Xerxes' immense invasion force marches against the Greek mainland. |
| 480 BC: | The Spartans fight the heroic defence at Thermopylae. |
| 480 BC: | The Persian navy is defeated at the Battle Salamis. |
| 479 BC: | Persians defeated at Plataea . |
| 479 BC: | Persians defeated at Mycale & the Persian fleet detroyed. |
The Third Persian War: 478 BC - (Greeks go on the Offensive)
| 478 BC: | Athenians besieged & captured Sestos, a key Hellespontine city. |
| 478 BC: | The Delian League formed. |
| 478 BC: | Greeks capture Cyprus, then Byzantium. |
| 466 BC: | The Persians are defeated in a naval battle off the Eurymedon River in Asia Minor. |
| 465 BC: | Artaxerxes becomes king of Persia after his father, Xerxes, is assassinated. |
| 448 BC: | Hostilities finally ending with the Peace of Callias. |
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