489 BC

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• After his great victory in the Battle of Marathon, Miltiades leads a naval expedition to Paros to pay off a private score. However, the expedition is unsuccessful and, on his return, he is fined in a prosecution led by Xanthippus and put in prison where he dies of wounds received at Paros.
• The Athenian soldier and statesman, Aristides "the Just", is made chief archon of Athens.

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• Miltiades, Athenian general (b. c. 550 BC)

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