475 BC

Events

By place

Greece

• Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the indigenous inhabitants who are regarded as pirates.
• The first recorded eruption of Mount Etna.

  China

• Zhou Yuan Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty.

  By topic

Arts

• The painter Polygnotus of Thasos begins his work.

  Births

Deaths

• Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher