477 BC

Centuries:	6th century BC · 5th century BC · 4th century BC
Decades:	500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC
Years:	480 BC 479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC 475 BC 474 BC

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The Spartan co-ruler Leotychides and the Athenian leader Themistocles lead a fleet and army to reoccupy northern Greece and to punish the aristocratic family of the Aleuads for having aided the Persians. Leotychides is caught accepting a bribe during the operations in Thessaly.
Greek maritime cities around the Aegean Sea no longer wish to be under Spartan control and at Delos offer their allegiance, through Aristides, to Athens. They form the Delian League ( also know as the Confederacy of Delos) with Kimon as their principal commander.

At the Battle of the Cremera, Roman Republic forces in a stronghold on the Cremera River are defeated by an army of Veientes from the Etruscan city of Veii.

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