483 BC

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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades: 510s BC  500s BC  490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC  460s BC  450s BC 
Years: 486 BC 485 BC 484 BC - 483 BC - 482 BC 481 BC 480 BC
483 BC by topic
Politics
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483 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 483 BC
Ab urbe condita 271
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2326 – -2325
Buddhist calendar 62
Chinese calendar 2154/2214
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
— to —
2155/2215
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
Ethiopian calendar -490 – -489
Hebrew calendar 3278 – 3279
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -427 – -426
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2619 – 2620
Holocene calendar 9518
Iranian calendar 1104 BP – 1103 BP
Islamic calendar 1138 BH – 1137 BH
Japanese calendar
 - Imperial Year Kōki 178
(皇紀178年)
 - Jōmon Era 9518
Julian calendar -437
Korean calendar 1851
Thai solar calendar 61
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[edit] Persian empire

  • Xerxes I of Persia is encouraged by his cousin and brother-in-law, Mardonius, supported by a strong party of exiled Greeks, to take revenge for the 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. To avoid a repeat of the significant losses to the Persian fleet that occurred in 492 BC, Xerxes has a canal cut through the promontory of Mount Athos.

[edit] Greece

  • Athenian archon Themistocles realises that the Greeks need to be able to beat the Persians at sea. To carry out this strategy, however, Athens needs far more warships (that is to say the newly developed, specialised triremes) than the 70 it has. Themistocles is initially opposed by other Athenian leaders. However, when the state-owned silver mines at Laurium become the site of a rich strike, Themistocles persuades the assembly, instead of "declaring a dividend," to devote the whole surplus to increasing the navy to a proposed 200 ships.

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