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Xerxes, therefore, had to raise another army for his expedition into Greece, which took another four years. [26] There was also unrest in Babylon, which revolted at least twice against Xerxes during his reign. The first revolt broke out in June or July of 484 BC and was led by a rebel of the name Bel-shimanni. Bel-shimmani's revolt was short ...
Babylonian revolts (484 BC) Part of the Babylonian revolts against the Persian Empire: The Daiva inscription of Xerxes I (c. 480 BC), which records the suppression of a religious revolt somewhere in the Achaemenid Empire.
Year 484 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mamercus and Vibulanus (or, less frequently, year 270 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 484 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe ...
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece.
484 BC: Athenian playwright Aeschylus wins a poetry prize. 484 BC: Xerxes I abolishes the Kingdom of Babel and removes the golden statue of Bel (Marduk, Merodach). 484 BC: Persians regain control of Egypt. 483 BC: Gautama Buddha dies. 483 BC: Xerxes I of Persia starts planning his expedition against Greece
Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', [7] was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then under Persian overlordship). He wrote his 'Enquiries' (Greek— Historia ; English— (The) Histories ) around 440–430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent ...
484 BC October 484 BC Babylonian rebel [125] Bel-shimanni: Bêl-šimânni: July 484 BC August 484 BC Babylonian rebel [125] Xerxes I the Great (Second reign) Aḫšiaršu: October 484 BC 465 BC King of the Achaemenid Empire — retook Babylon [122] Artaxerxes I: Artakšatsu: 465 BC December 424 BC King of the Achaemenid Empire — son of Xerxes ...
The temple to Nabu at Borsippa was destroyed in 484 BC during the suppression of a revolt against the Achaemenid emperor, Xerxes I. [ 13 ] In the 1st millennium BC, the city had a large scribal class.