477 BC c.

The year 477 B.C. C. was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulate of Pulvilo and Lanato (or less frequently, year 277 Ab urbe condita).

Events

Greece

• The Spaniard King Pausanias, in charge of a Greek fleet, expelled the Persians of Byzantium, a city from which he erected in tyrant.
• Nicomedes, son of Cleombrotus, king of Esparta, due to the low age of the son of Pausanias, Plistoanacte.

Roman Republic

• Destruction of the gens Fabia in the fortress of Crémera (Batalla de Crémera).
• Defeat of the consul Tito Menenio Lanato in front of the Etruscans.
• Battle of the Temple of Hope. Consul Horatio Pulvilo defeats the veyians at the gates of Rome.

Japan

• Finish the reign of the fourth emperor, Itoku.

Deaths

• Pausanias, king of Esparta.
• Emperor Itoku, fourth emperor of Japan (n. 554 BC), at the age of 77.