Centuries: 4th century BC - 5th century BC - 6th century BC

Decades: 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC

Years: 480 BC 479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC - 475 BC - 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC 470 BC

Events

• Zhou Yuan Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

Births

Deaths

• Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher
• Pythagoras of Samos, mathematician